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No Memory in FCP
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I have been editing a couple of projects for a while on FCP 5.1.2. One project is average feature size and the other is a Doc edit (huge). Anyhow, I go back and forth between them. The Average sized project was shot in 4:3 and the Doc Anamorphic. Anyhow, on the bigger project I started doing still images and forgot to change the sequence settings so I had to render all the stills (tons). I started noticing my HD drive had little space (went from 9GB to 3GB) and the red screen (no memory) came up in my FCP canvas. I freed up more space on the HD drive (3GB back to the original 9GB) and went back to editing but it now freezes up when I try to cut in paste the stills to a new sequence that is anamorphic. Long in short is I want to free up more memory. I have 2 GBs memory and it is using it all and crashing FCP. I am using two 2TB external drives and have about 9 GBs left on my Macbook Pro HD drive (I know 20 GB is recommended but I don’t know where to free up more space. I also have been working with about 9GBs on the HD drive for 2 years now). Any suggestions. I know render files is an option but don’t want to screw the project up?What do you think?
Shelby
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Memory on a Mac system never refers to hard drive space, it is always RAM or Video RAM. What much RAM do you have on your system. Hard drive is normally referred to as disc space.
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I think the price of another external drive is peanuts compared to having your project tied up without working disk space and not being able to reliably get your final project off.
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An advised amount of space for HDD space is actually 20% of the total size, I.e 100GB drives needs 20GB spare. This is because of fragmentation, when a HDD gets full it starts to put data where it can find space which leads to slower read times.
As Micheal said, investing in eHDD is pretty affordable these days, I don’t keep any media on my local drive at all only a copy of my FCP project.
In terms of your memory issue I assume you have done the usual reset PRAM and checked the memory is seated correctly? If so I would see about getting some sort of memtest running on your machine and see what errors come up.
Good luck!
Si
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Oh – forgot to say – PLEASE don’t use your system drive as a media drive. It always causes problems and dropped frames as it fills up. Apple’s own advice is to always use a seperate media drive.
External drives are cheap and reliable mostly – you can find many good pro makes advertising here.
Edit Out Ltd
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If you do a search on this forum for ‘out of memory’ messages in FCP, you will find numerous threads relating to this error.
It is NOT an issue of hard-drive space, nor system NOR graphics memory. It is an error that occurs when the project has been corrupted in some way. Some have found joy in erasing render files.
I have found the best solution to revert to a previously saved version of the project that is stable – you can find them in your autosave vault.
I wonder if we can get this one added to the FAQ (not that anyone ever looks at it…..)
Ben
Edit Out Ltd
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EVS/VT Supervisor for live broadcast
RED camera transfer/post
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[John Langley] “I am using two 2TB external drives and have about 9 GBs left on my Macbook Pro HD drive (I know 20 GB is recommended but I don’t know where to free up more space.”
Simple, you buy another drive and move some of whatever is filling up your system drive onto it.
And before you complain about the expense, remember, drives are cheaper than they’ve ever been before and time is money.
Arnie
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Thanks everybody for the advice. I must not have explained myself very well. Let me start over. I have a documentary project and all of its footage is on an external drives. There is no trouble with drive space in my externals and I have around 20 GB left on my internal. I also have 2 GB of RAM. But my FCP file has no memory to operate and now won’t even open (just viewer and browser). When I try to open sequence there is no memory. There are many subtleties that are hard to express and would love if someone would walk me through over the phone. This is such an important project, I would hate to screw it up trying to figure out through messages. Can anyone help?
Shelby
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I have a similar problem to you. I’m using a G-Raid 1Tb drive but my on a very large project but my browser is squeezing my native 16.9 media to 4.3 and graphics are alternating between my selected Georgia font and to stretched arial fonts and the font on my credits sequence seem squashed and condensed and back into 4.3 ???
I’m assuming this is a memory issue and would like to know could I delete some of my sequence tabs, unused clips and other media such as graphics within my FCP project to free up some memory within my system so it will all work as planned?
Believe you may have some of the same issues as me on this one?
Many thanks
Simone
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