Out Of Memory Error Message FCP 7 on Mac Pro with 14 GB RAM

[David Roth weiss]

By all means, try taking out the 1Gb sticks and see what happens.

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[Scott Sheriff]

I have to agree with David. It will probably run better with the 1 gig sticks removed. But I’m guessing there is something else going on. Did you recently upgrade your FCP, or OS? Download an update?

Scott Sheriff
Director
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[Michael Sheehan]

Hi James,
This might already be something you have considered, but until I got religion about it, the facility I worked for had the most incredibly unreal, hair-tearing bizarre FCP issues. Basically both risers have to have all the same DIMMs laid out the same way on each. 6 on each riser. I concur that adding the 1g DIMMS into the mix is not a good idea. Once I went in a reconfigure every machine to have evenly matched sets of DIMMS of the same type (3 2gs on each, 4 1 gs on each, etc) our problems disappeared.

Don’t know if this will help. Hope so.
Cheers
Michael

[James Fortier]

turns out the two 1 GB sticks are labeled as 2 GB but showing up as 1 GB each in the system profiler, so clearly they are defective, I removed them, and so far no more error message, but rendering time still seems slow, I’ll order one more set of 2 GB sticks and max this out at 16 GB evenly spread across both risers, thanks for the feedback.

[Bryan Banks]

I was getting this message yesterday when prepping my friend’s sequence for color… it was a .jpg that was way too big (6k x 4k). scaled that down in PS and everything rendered fine after that.

-Bryan

[Mike Kahn]

FCP can only use 2g of RAM no matter how much is in your machine. It is recommended that you have at least 4g to use uncompressed HD so that the machine has 2g and FCP has the full 2g.

This is because FCP is still a 32bit program and 32bit programs can not use more then 2g of RAM ever. Once FCP goes 64bit then all that RAM can get utilized.

[James Fortier]

Interesting, I did not know that, thanks for the tip, I’ll put off buying the additional set of 2GB Memory Sticks then.

[William Wonders]

that is for each project or all together

[Mike Kahn]

This is for the application, not project based. And I was a bit off, 32bit applications can use about 3.5gig of ram, not 2 gig.