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PLEASE HELP! Corrupt file?
(I’m new to creative cow, so bear with me…)
I keep getting an “error, out of memeory” message whenever I try to open clips in the viewer on a certain project. I can drop clips into the timeline and they’ll play in the canvas, but they won’t open in the viewer at all.
I’m editing 4 short projects in FCp at the same time. Right now, I’m just setting them up and organzing them, so the project files are quite small (i.e. not eating memory). the other 3 are working flawlessly.
All projects are running off the same drive. all were shot and captured in the same format.
I’ve tried restaring the computer, drive, FCP, only opening the project in question and shutting down every other applciation, trashing prefs…
I know my computer’s memory is not running low (I’ve got iStat pro on my dashboard to monitor everything), and I know the drive the clips are on is not the problem since the other projects are all working just fine.
I’m running OS 10.4.7 on a dual core intel mac pro with 4 GB of memory, processor speed 2.66 GHz,
FCP is 5.1.2
FCP my memory is set to 100% (2560MB)…I’m really falling behind on my work. these projects need to be ready in two days! any advice? is it a 5.1.2 thing? PLEASE HELP!
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3 Replies
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If you open that one project, do you still get the error?
Jeremy
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Yes. I’ve tried reimporting the clips to a new project. I’ve tried only importing one clip to a new project woith nothing else running and no other projects open. I still get the “error: out of memory” message when I double click to play in the viewer…
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a couple of things to try – first, recapture that particular clip, as it could just be corrupted. If you don’t know how to do this, the simplest way (and the way that saves the most HD space, too) is to locate the original capture and delete it, open the project and batch capture.
If you then can’t play still, trash the preferences for FCP, restart and check to see if you can get it to work.
If none of this works, and that’s possible, you can still edit without using the viewer, just drag do your timeline, and cut using the player as a viewer – it kinda sucks, but you’ll at least get through it. And once you’re done with the project you can do some heavier digging into your system and update the OS, which is possibly part of the problem. I would wait to do that, tho, until you have this project done. Updating in mid-project is never a good idea…
Kevin Hamm
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