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Help – General Error
My Colleague is currently working through a time pressured edit and is experiencing an unusual General Error in FCP 4
A reliable system – Power Book G4, but using a brand new G-Tech Hard drive 250G 7200 Firewire.
Footage captured fine (DV Pal) but working in the timeline he tried to retime a clip – a standard procedure
and Final cut closed the timeline and viewer, posting a message – General Error – Out of Memory
The project will now not open in FCP although other old projects on old hard drives work fine.
He has moved the footage from the new hard drive to an older reliable drive – but 1 file (60 mins in length) reads error bad file cannot copy.
However this file plays fine (from the new hard drive) in QT and FCP.
The power book has 1.5 Gb RAM and 15 GB free on the hard drive
the system settings use the new hard drive as capture, waveform and render
is there any help out there??
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you might be able to open up a version from the autosave vault. This seems about the only way i have found to retrieve a sequence after this happens.
I have had this problem many times and once it happens there does not seem to be any way to rescue the sequence.
No one has – to my knowledge – been able to say what is causing this problem. Its certainly not uncommon though!
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK
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