Operation not allowed – out of memory? FCP5

[Walter Biscardi]

Go into your Memory / Cache Allocations and up the Still Cache to about 30 – 50%. Something is very screwy right now with the Still Memory Cache with FCP 5.0 and 5.0.2 that needs to be addressed by Apple.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Tom Matthies]

In the mean time, go to your audo save vault and try to pull up an older version of your project.
I had the same thing happen to me. It seems to be corrupting the project or at least the sequences.
Tom

[Peter]

Do you have PSD files in your sequence? Big ones? YOu could try taking those offline first to see if they’re the culprit. PSD files have been known to cause this error in FCP.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Walter Biscardi] ”
Go into your Memory / Cache Allocations and up the Still Cache to about 30 – 50%.”

I should add this too:

First Trash your prefs. Then launch FCP and let it open the Untitled Project. NOW Change your Memory Allocation, THEN open your project that’s causing the problems.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Rory Hinds]

thanks guys for all the feedback.

I’ll try this all out. I managed to open a previous version and work from that.

I really don’t like Tiger 🙂

thanks
Rory

Rory Hinds
http://www.whatismine.com

[Bill Willins]

Hey Apple … do you know just how many of us are reading these posts and “holding off” on upgrading to Tiger…… countless thousands. Don’t get me wrong …. as an Avid transplant … I love all the cool things Apple is doing …and I love FCP … but as a professional editors we cannot accept this amount of serious bugs in our primary editing program.

[Rory Hinds]

do you really think A) Apple read these post? & B) cares?

I think Apple is way to busy counting its earnings from iPod and other consumer based products that. Pro users don’t really have much of a voice with Apple these days. They want to be the new Sony 🙂

Rory Hinds
http://www.whatismine.com

[Walter Biscardi]

[Rory Hinds] “do you really think A) Apple read these post?”

Actually, yes the Apple teams do read these posts.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Bret Williams]

You could send them feedback directly from FCP instead of hoping they see your post somewhere on the web. And yeah, Jobs has been quoted as saying that the only competition he thought Apple has in the home computer media hub dept. is Sony.