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Green Freeze
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[Chris Waz] “So maybe this helped? “
For sure it can help. since the footage didn’t seem to the culprit, it was going to be my next suggestion.
How much do you have in your project (everything, not just footage)?
Jeremy
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The project weighed in at 297.8 MB. Do you know if there is a safe size limit?
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[Chris Waz] “The project weighed in at 297.8 MB.”
That’s massive. I seem to lose stability at over 100 MB.
I’ve had big projects go corrupt a couple of times – they always seem to gain a big chunk of size when they start to go. Keep an eye on the project file size, and it can give you an early warning.
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Chris-
Please tell us more about what exactly is in your project.
Is it only footage? How many sequences? Still frames (no)? Motion projects? Give me a run down of when you open your project, what’s in the browser?
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there’s a lot in it but just footage, music, bins and sequences.
about 600 gigs of DVCPRO HD footage is linked to it.
-17 bins with 15 to 70 clips (original clips).
-13 bins with footage multiclipped — 15 to 30 multiclips per bin.
-120 sequences (14 final sequences and many roughs) sequences are about 5 minutes long.
-14 music tracks — 10 to 20 seconds each.however, i am playing around with the original project right now, and it is playing back fine.
seems like it was a corrupt sequence in the project causing the problem. I’ve seen this with Avid many times but never with FCP! -
[Chris Waz] “seems like it was a corrupt sequence in the project causing the problem.”
Yes, that green is usually a tell tale sign of curruption somewhere. Finding it can be difficult as you have seen. Your project will get smaller if you duplicate it and put the duplicate off to the side and delete some of those sequences. You can always go back to the copy project if you need them later on.
Jeremy
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done. thanks for all the quick responses.
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Just a follow up…
I got the problem again.
It seems once a project gets in the 90MB range, its prone to the dreaded green canvas.
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