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out of memory error
Whenever I’m working in 8 or 10 bit, standard or high def I get an “out of memory error” when rendering large segments of my timeline. I can never just set the show to render all my color grading and effects and walk away, I always have to nurse it along.
I get slightly better results if I use Autorender but it also craps out after rendering a few minutes of timeline. Once I get the error message I have to restart and pickup the renders from where I left off.
I’m running FCS2 on a 300Ghz intel quad with 4 GB of ram. I’ve been experiencing this problem for many versions of Final Cut and it never seems to get addressed in the revisions. Anyone else having similar problems? Any other work arounds?
cheers,
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17 Replies
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Have you deleted your preferences?
-Russ
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I’ve deleted my preferences and it doesn’t help. its also a pain because it resets a bunch of other setting, like effects “favorites” etc.
I know several other FCP users here that experience the same problem.
cheers,
greg -
Greg,
Delete all render files for your current sequence using Render Manager in Tool menu. This will make renders much faster and will also alleviate the issues you’re having with incomplete renders.
If it doesn’t work I’ll eat your render files…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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Are you running regulary Diskwarrior or Techtools?
Whenever I get troubles with FC I start for making sure that my system is OK. The last thing I do is to trash the prefs. I even re-install FC before to do that.
Cheers,
rafael -
How would you like me to serve my renders… rare, medium, with garlic butter?
The reason I’m re-rendering is because I have trashed the old renders and want to have a clean pass for output. The shows are 45 – 52 minute broadcast docs with lots of color correction and effects filters. They can take more than 3 or 4 hours to render in standard def, I don’t even want to talk about HD!
cheers,
greg -
I recently had this issue with one of our systems running 5.1.2. The problem was FCP was rendering the files to the System Drive. Although the prefs had it pointing to the NAS it still kept them locally. I would make sure the render files are going where they are supposed to be. Our NAS company was aware of the problem and said other users were seeing similar issues. Our 2 other seats render just fine to the NAS. I have since trashed all the prefs and it seems to be better. We are waiting to finish testing FCS2 on our test system before letting it loose in the work environment.
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You might try rendering in sections incase there is a corrupt clip or a clip/effect combination that causing the problem.
When I have a big show like that, I render in sections and then save after each section is done rendering. It helps me track down the root of the problem.
-Russ
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Everything related to each of my projects is stored on it own 2TB raid, media and render files. I’ve been running FCS2 for a couple weeks now with no NEW issues, only the same OLD ones.
I also trashed the prefs last week but it made no difference.
cheers,
greg -
I useually render in segments as I color grade and add effects to test how things look. And your right, i helps you find corrupt media or effect files. But once I’ve completed the online I like to trash the huge amount of segmented render files and do clean pass for output.
cheers,
greg -
[Greg Nosaty] “How would you like me to serve my renders… rare, medium, with garlic butter?”
I just hope your CC is makes the renders look tasty… Eye appeal is as important as taste…
Im surprised deleting renders didn’t work. That’s a first for that one…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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