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i am desperate please help me render
This may sound crazy but I cannot render anything else in FCP 5. The spot I am doing is for a major recording artist and record label and needs to be done by tomorrow. All the footage is in but it will not allow me to render. I am begging you to please help me in this. I don’t know what to do. The piece is only 4 min. long and maybe a dozen effects. I am using a G5 dual 2gig. I have alot of space left on my drives so that isn’t the problem.
I am at my computer sitting and waiting to hear from you. You can also call me at either number below.
Blessings,
818-235-7743 cell
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Go to “sequence” in your menu. Go to “Render All” make sure everything is checked. Render all. If that does not work. Quit FCP, trash prefs, restart.
Scott Davis
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And if that doesn’t work, it’s highly likely you have a corrupt project or media file(s). To test the first, open a new project, copy and paste your timeline and browser to the new project and re-name it. For the second, highlight each clip in the timeline and press command R. Do this til you find the one(s) that won’t render, they are bad files.
Have a wonderful day.
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You could consider rendering out individual quicktimes of certain effects, for example, if you have several speed changes and color corrections and mattes all on one shot, make a quicktime of the clip with just the speed change first, then replace the clip with the quicktime, so that you only have to render the color correction, etc.
I had that happen when rendering credits on a giant HD sequence. It was just too much, the credits were a giant photoshop doc that was being rendered as a scroll, and an opacity change, and our dual G5 with 4 GB ram would not do it. So I exported a quicktime of the scrolling, and applied the opacity effect to that quicktime.
Render files are wierd: in copying and pasting clips from one sequence to another, I’ve seen the speed change shots become completely different shots. So I’ve been conditioned to export quicktimes of such shots.
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also, make sure that your scratch disks aren’t full. If they are, set an overflow disk (an additional scratch disk in your scratch disk settings window) and make sure that the render files checkbox(es) to the left are checked. Or, if you only have a little but to render and don’t have any more disks, you could change the minimum disk space quota size (I can’t remember the correct name for this), which prevents FCP from writing files to any disk if writing that file would mean that said disk would end up with less free space than is defined by the quota. You can find this setting in the prefrences window, and it’s probably set by default at 2048 MB (2 gigs).
Good luck,
Ben
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