losing renders after ‘hiding’ fcp

[Jeremy Garchow]

A couple of ideas:

Are you n FCP 6.0.1?

If not, are those clips anyway tied to a SmoothCam filter?

Jeremy

[Liam Lawyer]

Hey Jeremy!

I am on 6.0.2 and no smooth cams in this project.. BUT I think I found the issue.

I am in the middle of doing lots of media managing/ consolidating and I think because it was pulling from some of the old media that was in the trash it was having some render disconnect.. as soon as I trashed the old files it seems to now hold its renders.

Thanks though!

– Liam

Liam Lawyer
-editor-

[Jeremy Garchow]

Cool.

[Chris Borjis]

I am having this issue with 6.01

when it happens, I close without saving and re-open
the project. sometimes the render is intact, sometimes not.

annoying to be sure!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Borjis] “I am having this issue with 6.01 “

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306068

[Chris Borjis]

Thanks Jeremy.

I’m waiting to upgrade to 6.02 till I absolutely have to.

(still need to make new disk image clones beforehand, etc…)

[Carla Garcia]

I am working with two editors who are losing their renders when we shut down our computers and external drives: (linked through firewire, where the renders are being saved).

One editor is on Tiger, FCP 6.01 and using a kona3 card, the other has no kona card but is on FCP 6.0.3 and Leopard.

They only work off the drives but on occasion access an ftp server to download files but never directly off this serve. Wondering though if connection to this server may cause any interference.

I have check that they have permission and plenty of free space to where they are rendering. I have tried trashing preferences. The editor on the leopard system is also losing his connection to his media.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Carla Garcia] “One editor is on Tiger, FCP 6.01”

Updating 6.0.1 to 6.0.3 should fix this in most cases.

[Carla Garcia] “the other has no kona card but is on FCP 6.0.3 and Leopard. “

Any chance the renders you are losing have smooth cam applied to them?

[Carla Garcia]

No. The one on 6.0.1 doesn’t lose his renders consistently. They are not applying smooth cam to them. They are not even sharing their files with each other. They simply shut down their computers and drives at night, do you think that has anything to do with it?

Thanks,
Carla

[Jeremy Garchow]

Shutting down? No, that shouldn’t have anything to do with it.

A long shot:

Quit FCP.

Open the Applications folder and find the FCP icon.

Right click on it and choose “Show Package Contents”

Navigate in the contents folder and find a folder named ‘MacOS’ and look for render files folder. If it’s there, trash ONLY THAT FOLDER.

Trash you FCP prefs and when you reopen FCP make sure to reset your scratch disk folders properly.

Jeremy