ProRes 422 Render Problem

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ProRes 422 Render Problem

Posted by Jonny Hal on September 19, 2009 at 1:10 am

Am working on a Dual Quad Core Mac running 10.5.8 with 4 Gigs of RAM, Kona 3 and a 5 Terrabyte Array.

My FCP 6.0.6 project contains ProRes 422 files (1920×1080, 23.98) — they play back fine and export out fine as long as no kind of render is involved.

My graphics guy gave me a title graphic saved using the animation codec.

When I added the graphic to my timeline and tried to render — it renders 50% then beach ball.

I went to After Effects and tried to render the same graphic out as ProRes — beach ball halfway thru.

I tried rendering 1 sec only — it worked

I tried rendering 2 seconds — beach ball

I’ve trashed pLists and caches, restarted — any other ideas?

thanks.

Jonny Hal replied 16 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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David Roth weiss
September 19, 2009 at 1:19 am

Sounds like a corrupt file. Open it in Streamclip and try to render as QT>>ProRes. If Streamclip won’t do it your graphics guy probably gave you a corrupt file and you’ll need to have him shot for not testing it.

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Jonny Hal
September 19, 2009 at 1:26 am

too funny.

thanks I was coming to the same conclusion. thanks.
Neil Sadwelkar
September 19, 2009 at 11:07 am

Most likely the CG artist began the render and it stopped midway. He quit the app and the file was not ‘closed’. Try opening the movie in QT Player and if it opens fine, export it as an image sequence. If it beachballs halfway, you’ll have the frames till the crash. Maybe they are all the frames you need.

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Jeremy Garchow
September 20, 2009 at 1:53 am

Are you sure the file is 23.976? If you tell an AE artist to set the frame rate to 23.98, they will, you really need to tell them 23.976. You can conform the Animation movie in Cinema Tools to 23.976, but even Cinema Tools calls it 23.98. Silly, but true.

Jeremy
Jonny Hal
September 20, 2009 at 5:42 am

thanks so much for following up — I just exported the animation file as a tiff sequence and brought that into After Effects.

10 minutes later I had a ProRes 422 file.

I had upgraded my system just before this this ProRes problem cropped up — 10.5.8 — and am glad to find it was one stupid file and not a gremlin somewhere in my system.

Thanks again to all.

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