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[Walter Biscardi]

System details?

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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

[Ann Lukacs]

OS X ver 10.4.8
Dual 2.3 GHz power PC G5
2G DDR SDRAM

Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.3 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.15 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1

[Walter Biscardi]

No external or secondary media drive? You’re running your media off your System Drive?

There’s your problem.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Apple Annie] “it keeps crashing at about 16 minutes. Any ideas?”

A rule of thumb: if you keep having the same error in the same place, you’ve got a problem in that place. Check all of your audio, graphics & video at around the 16 minute mark. Odds are that something is corrupt or needs to be re-rendered there.

Arnie
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[Ann Lukacs]

I actually have two external hard drives on the computer. Forgot to mention those.

Here is where I think I messed up. The media is saved in a folder in the capture scratch on an external hard drive. The sequence and the PTVTmpfiles are being saved in a folder under Render File on the Media HD on the system.

What do I do?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Apple Annie] ”
Here is where I think I messed up. The media is saved in a folder in the capture scratch on an external hard drive. The sequence and the PTVTmpfiles are being saved in a folder under Render File on the Media HD on the system.”

You never want to split your folders, Simply set the External drive as your Capture Scratch and be sure to also have Render Files also set that same drive.

Simply reset your Media drives so Render is set to the external drive. Trash your Renders and re-render the project.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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

[Don Walker]

I had the same problem a couple of years ago, the computer was trying to put my firewire drive asleep. Go to your system prefences and check in the Energy Saver section, make sure you don’t have the computer going to sleep for a good long time, and uncheck the “put hard disks to sleep if possible” box

John 3:16

[Ann Lukacs]

That did it! Thanks.