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“Render Error: Insufficient Disk Space”
Hey,
I’ve searched around on this forum and I’ve seen that this error message has annoyed a lot of people but I haven’t been able to find a solution to my specific problem.
I’m working on adding a music track to a short video clip in FCP. The video is a 1902 x 1080, H.264 MP4-file with the size 8.9 MB. When I’m trying to render the clip, I get the error message “Render Error: Insufficient Disk Space”. My scratch disk is set to the computer HD (I’m using a Macbook Pro) which has 1 GB free disk space. I’ve trashed the FCP preferences and restarted but same problem.
I’d very much appreciate some help with this. Thanks!
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4 Replies
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That might be one of the many glitches that can happens when you try to edit an unsupported format (H264/MP4) in FC.
[Aron Zana] “My scratch disk is set to the computer HD..which has 1 GB free disk space. “
1GB?
You should be happy that you are able to open your computer and even open FC.
Just to open the system and the applications needs a certain amount of HD free space for what is called “Virtual memory”. That’s a kind of temporal memory where applications write data, and is necessary even if applications are in ‘”stand by”. Have a look to the Activity Monitor.
Free HD space is what you need.
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I would recommend keeping at at least 15-20% of your hard drive free at all times.
Drives that are less than 50% full will almost always run better than drives that are not. Drives that have less than 10% free will almost always have problems(including but not limited to running slower) outside of there isn’t enough free space.
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I cleared up some space on the HD (got about 10 GB free now) and rendering works. I appreciate the help. Thanks.
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Yes 1 GB is way to low for a scratch disk.
Also I’ve heard that it is not a good idea to render and edit to you computer HD.Steve.
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