• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FYI Strange ‘General Error’ Solution

  Posted by Alex Elkins on October 19, 2010 at 2:22 pm

  Hi All,

  I just wanted to share a strange solution I found to a General Error warning I’ve been getting. This isn’t something that will fix every General Error, obviously, but might help with future troubleshooting…
  
  The Scenario:
  FCP 7.0.3
  Sequence containing a nested sequence.
  In/Out points set
  Exporting using QuickTime conversion to h.264

  As soon as I OK’d the export I would be hit with the General Error error. Exporting worked on other sequences, so clearly the problem lay in this one sequence. I trashed render files and tried again to no avail. Didn’t get as far as trashing preferences because I discovered…

  The Solution:
  Turned out that by accident the in point of my sequence was set 1 frame after the frame the nested sequence began at. As soon as I shifted the in point back 1 frame it worked without any issues.
  
  The Conclusion:
  Well, there really isn’t a conclusion because exporting should work wherever the in point is set. But there you go, that was what fixed it so maybe this information will help people in the future.

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