General Error 34 wth is this thing

[Walter Biscardi]

According to this it’s a “Disk Full” error.

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=9805

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Todd Hallam]

I know this is an old post but I was getting this error and discovered I had mistakenly had my in point at the end of the sequence – once I removed that no problem.

Todd Hallam
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[Neil Weaver]

Just had the exact same problem: in point marked at end of edit for some reason- and fixed it with Todd’s solution. Thanks mate- I was about to start some serious deconstruction and rebuilding of hard drives til I saw your post!

[Alessandro Merletti de palo]

Todd, may the earth bless you! I was going crazy.. hope apple will change the definition of General Error 34, as it’s disk failure OR empty data to export!

Thank you so much for posting,
A.

[Tim Young]

Awesome Thank you. That was hurting my brain.

[Ben Ramsey]

Thanks! That saved about an hour of headache. It would be a lot easier if it said “Hey your in point is at the end of the sequence!”

[Nick Lange]

Todd, you are the man.

I just spent two hours at war with Final Cut before realizing that clicking the beginning of my sequence and typing “i” (to set the in point there) would solve all my earthly problems.

Thank you.

[Erik Mundall]

Well, I have followed Todd’s advice, no go. I checked all of my drives for available space…the drive with the least amount of room has 62 GB free space. The scratch disk, used for renders etc., has more than 2 Terrabytes (TB) free space.

What else could it be? The error comes up first thing if I restart Final Cut, and prevents me from rendering the final clip in the timeline. It simply won’t render on account of “General Error (34).”

[Alessandro Merletti de palo]

Well maybe your scratch disks aren’t set properly.. try to render a little portion of your timeline with a short IN/OUT section..

[Erik Mundall]

Thank you for the response. I think I have determined that my project is corrupted. Every clip on the sequence, save for the very last clip, can be rendered. The sequence has about 26 min. of video. The last clip is about 15 seconds long and will play (preview quality) but generates the error if I try to render it.

I took some new clips and added them to the sequence after that last clip, and discovered the error occurs with them too. It’s like there is a dividing line in my timeline before which is fine and after which produces the “General Error.”

I still do not know the cause of the error. I have scanned every drive to check for disk, directory, or partition errors (because another topic had info posted about this possibility), but the drives all appear clean.

Suffice it to say, I am scrapping the project and going back to a previously saved version.