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General Error upon export of sequence
When exporting one sequence in particular from FCP4.5, as Self-Contained movie, I keep getting “General Error” message (I’ve gotten it about 20 times now). This only happens when I try to export the entire sequence. In pieces the message does not show up. If exporting Audio only, the entire sequence will export. If exporting QT movie w/compression, the entire sequence will export. Other sequences from this project will export as Self-Contained movies. Coincidentally, or causally, I don’t know, there are five clips that appear in the canvas as fine, but when exported as a compressed qt movie, show up as being off-line. Dont know if these things are related, because if I export as self-contained movie just this section of the sequence in question, it is fine. Anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be?
Thanks! Nora
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4 Replies
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Nora- This error is usually caused by a corrupt render file. To isolate the problem in our situation we broke the sequence into three parts then zeroed in on the culprit. A bit tedious but we finally found the problem, fixed it and were able to move on.
I’ve also read on the forum that these render errors can often be caused by the render scratch drive not having enough space.
Hope this helps.
Jerry -
Try trashing your preferences. This will usually take care of general errors in fcp 4.5.
Use this to do it. It’s free.
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
Jeremy
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Jerry, thanks for this advice. In fact that is exactly what happened – I went though the sequence piece by piece until I found one imported graphic file that was no good, which I trashed and re-imported a fresh one. It was very tedious but now the sequence is fine. Best, Nora
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Jerry, thanks for the link…Nora
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