• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut crash on export, “Frankenstein’s monster” health concerns

  Posted by Seth Arch on September 24, 2007 at 12:49 am

  Okay, this ones a tricky one. There’s a couple layers to the plot so listen carefully.

  I am currently exporting an hour an a half video, (export to quicktime; reference) and it crashes about 75 percent through. At one point it was giving me out of memory errors (4 gigs of ram on this computer), but the last few times it either froze or crashed. sometimes with “kern_protection_failure”

  So, in retaliation, I split the video into three parts. It crashed on the 2nd part, so I split that up into more segments. The second segment crashed, so I split that up into two MORE segments and… it exported fine.

  I’m not sure why its crashing. There are no images in that portion of the video, I have plenty of ram, plenty of disk space, repaired permissions, fresh render files, repaired disks, and fresh fcp preferences.

  Anyways, since I live in the realworld and not the mythical, “Oh theres an error! Lets hunt it down and kill it on general principles!”-fantasy world, I figured a way to avoid this obstacle. After exporting my video into 5 reference quicktimes, I created a new sequence and dragged them all back in and re-exported them as one happy quicktime reference.

  Finally, we get to my questions:

  1) Why is this crashing!!!
  – and –
  2) Is there anything wrong with re-exporting these files to stitch them back together? Will there be quality loss (I’d think not, given that they are references)?

  I do not feel at ease frankensteining these files back together again. But that may be because I’ve been working on this problem for the last 10 hours and am starting to draw irrational metaphors between video editing and corpse reanimation.

  Thanks.
  Its alive its alive.

  – Seth

  Seth Arch replied 18 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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