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render issues neeed HELP
I recently finished color correcting a documentary that is 88 mins long. I used the filters Defocus and soft focus a lot. When I came in today, I went to go watch my project again and a red screen had shown up in place of the clips that I put these filters on. The screen says:
The Effect: “Defocus” failed to render: Your hardware cannot render the requested size n depth.
(I am working with 720x 480 footage)This does not make sense to me because I already watched the project a few days ago and it was fullly rendered. I tried reappling the filters and removing the old ones but the message keeps coming up.
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6 Replies
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Hi Ian,
That’s an error that will appear for hardware-accelerated FxPlug effects. Final Cut Pro may have determined that your graphics card does not have enough video memory to render the given effect. Final Cut Pro often makes this decision incorrectly, which explains why it’ll sometimes work.
Here’s a couple things to try:
1) Simply save your project, quit and restart FCP. On a fresh start, it’ll often render the sequence without the error.
2) Make sure that you are rendering in 8-bit YUV:
– Open the Sequence Settings window and switch to the Video Processing tab
– Select the “Render in 8-bit YUV” option
– Try rendering the sequence againHope this helps,
Gabe
Noise Industries, LLC
https://www.noiseindustries.com -
hello all.
Here sits a very mad editor! After switching ports on the Mac pro, turning on and off, pulling plugs out an in, reseting FCP settings, calling NVIDIA, calling apple and hours searching online I have found that I am not the only one with this issue. DO NOT BUY THE Nvidia 8800 GFrorce GTif you are a MAC PRO FCP EDITOR!!!!!!!
a lot of effects will not work or appear nor work till the card is out of your system!
I know this now after researching and then taking out the Nvidia 8800 GFrorce GT card and putting back in the ATI Radeon HD 2600. Everything works fine again.
THIS IS NOT COOL APPLE! Get your stuff together before you sell products!!! -
I’m not apologist for Apple but your issue is probably more nvidia’s than Apple’s.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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[Gabriele de Simone] “That’s an error that will appear for hardware-accelerated FxPlug effects”
Hi Gabe,
The new FXPlug are making life more difficult for many of us. Now what mans more speed for certain people, means impossible to do it for many more.
I find my self that I can not render those effects with 1080 ProRes unless I render in 8b. Makes no sense to render an effect in 8b when your footage is 10b.
Would be nice that, as happened with the old MagicBullet, the user could choose to render on GPU or CPU.
Cheers Rafael -
Hi Rafael,
This has indeed become a big problem. Final Cut Pro does not do a good job of managing video memory (Motion can render anything we’ve thrown at it in high-precision, without ever producing an error.)
All FxPlug hardware accelerated plug-ins are affected, and I’m betting that we (developers + Apple) must all be working on solutions to this problem. Apple is in the best position to fix this issue, but hopefully you won’t have to wait much longer to see all vendors come up with a workaround.
Gabe
Noise Industries, LLC
https://www.noiseindustries.com -
Hi Gabe,
Thanks for your answer.
I know that you, as a developer, have a deep understanding of the problems and shortcoming of FC&Co. As users we are very limited to understand many of those issues. I appreciate to know your point of view
Cheers,
rafael
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