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  • HDV Print To Tape Problems….

    Posted by Beenice on May 17, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    I’m trying to print to tape from a HDV sequence and I get this error:

    “The Specified file is open and in use by this or another application”

    No other applications are open. No other clips or sequences are open. I have closed and re-opened FCP. I have trashed Preferences. It seems everytime I try to Print to Video this error come up at different percentage’s of conforming video.

    I have seen on this forum that people have had this error w/ trying to render. But I haven’t found this error associated w/ any Printing to Video w/ HDV.

    Any Insight?

    Thanks,
    -B

    Philip Hibberd replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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    May 18, 2007 at 1:06 am

    Have you tried restarting the computer?

  • Beenice

    May 18, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    yes.

  • Beenice

    May 18, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Found this online and it quickly remedied my issue.

    Error Message:
    File Error: The specified file is open and in use by this or another application. (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Final Cut Pro)

    Translation:
    If you are using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Final Cut Pro, this error message may pop up from time to time. Mac OS X has a feature called Spotlight that runs in the background, indexing the files on your system to improve file searches at a later time. This error message can occur if Spotlight is indexing a folder that contains files Final Cut Pro is rendering. When Final Cut Pro renders files, it caches (the process of temporarily storing data, often in a computer

  • Philip Hibberd

    July 26, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    change the scratch disk back to what it was when you captured that footage.

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