Getting out of memory errors while rendering (5gig ram)

[Tom Daigon]

Yes, I have a G5 with 2 gigs and it happened when I tried to load
a simple tutorial sequence from Diane Weynands book on FCP6. But it was just this ONE sequence, every other sequence on the books dvd loaded just fine….

[Mark Maness]

The problem is your memory. Mac Pro systems run entirely differently than G5 systems. Memory is a majorly important factor when using a Mac Pro system. Take a look at this document from Apple on this issue with FCP.

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304492

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
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[Pxlmvr]

Actually, I get that on my dual 2Ghz G5 with 4GB of ram. Not sure why either.

[Eric Grush]

I am running a Dual 2.7 PowerPC G5
and have been struggling with this as well.
I have 6.5 gigs of RAM and whenever I try to
render large files it gives the same Out of Memory
failure. I can render for hours at SD, but only about
30min. in HD. My thought is that it is not simply a RAM
size issue. I have very fast SATA RAIDs and don’t think it’s
the drives. I had thought it was simply a throughput issue
in my older machine, but if you’re getting the same error on
newer machines then it must be something else.

[Mathias Theissen]

I’ve experienced this problem with fcp on powerpc processors since fcp 4.5.. Added a bit more detail in this post

[Patrick Troy]

I too am getting this error.
On a dual quad with 4gb ram
rendering ProRes

[Sean Oneil]

[Anders Haavie] ”
I have 5 gig ram so I guess that shouldn’t be a problem. Anyone else seen this behavour ?”

You’re not supposed to have 5 gigs in a Mac Pro.

Look at the doc Wayne posted.

Sean

[Scott Barker]

I’ve got a 17″ macBook Pro 2.5 4gb and I just quit final cut and opened it again. seems to work alright for now.

[Sam Roberts]

If you are rendering and re rendering the same shot, especially if there are large still photos in the timeline the memory gets overwhelmed.

Go to your render file for the project and delete all the renders, remember that there may be more than one render file for a project.

Your timeline will now be unrendered, simply re render the whole timeline again.

Yes FCP is totally lame because it can’t use all the memory you have in your computer, just one more thing on a very long lame list.

[Michael Wiser]

Your post spoke to exactly what i was doing. and I tried what you said but it still didn’t work. Now my whole sequence is in the red and and I can’t render it. give me the out of memory error.