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I’ve had enough of this!
Ever since FCP 5.0 (I’m currently on 5.1.4), every time I have a long render (2 minutes or longer), the program stops rendering midway through and displays this message, “Specified file is open and in use by this application.” Naturally, no other programs are running when this happens, and once I close out the box and start rendering again, it finishes. It’s impossible to start rendering and walk away, because when I come back, instead of a fully rendered program, I’ll have this message. I notified Apple about this early on as well as posting the problem here, but no response to either. Is anybody else experiencing this?
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[Chris Babbitt] “Is anybody else experiencing this?”
I have never seen this error on any of our systems. If you opened a file in another app while FCP was open, then I would guess you would see this error. I would suggest you restart the machine and only run FCP when you re-launch.
But I’ve not seen this nor have ever heard from any other editor I’m in contact with about this error.
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I’ve had this happen and it was solved by opening up the Spotlight preferences and adding the “Render Files” directory to the Privacy tab, so that it won’t scan them. I’m also on a Mac Pro and this fixes the problem every time. It only cropped up when rendering a long sequence for me as well. I think Spotlight was indexing the render files as FCP was making them and then causing that annoying error.
Hope that helps -
I have it happen every once in a while too.
Thanks for the tip Santiago.
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AH! HA!
Thank you Mr. Gutierrez. I’ll try that. Do I have to add my Render Files folders from each of my drives, or does this affect all folders at all locations with the same name? -
Hi Chris,
You need to add any Render Files folder that you will actually be rendering to. So for each different drive or volume that you are rendering to, you should add this folder into the Privacy tab of Spotlight.
Thanks,
Santiago -
just to add to the conversation. we have had this problem quite a bit on all four of our fcp suites.
very annoying but good to have a solution now!
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Switch off the friggin Spotlight. It’s a waste of resources and serves no good purpose. It’s stupid software. The Finder works much better and is accessible more easily in more places.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I should add there’s no good way to do that.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Tom,
How do I turn off Spotlight? I have a MacBook Pro 17″ with all the latest updates.
Thanx,
Gary -
I just found it on a Google search. Seems to work by using Terminal and editing a file. Why doesn’t Apple have this option in System Prefs for easy enable/disable?
Gary
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