Rendered clips display as unrendered

[David Roth weiss]

Two things come to mind:

1) Make sure “Full” (and all others too) are checked in the render menu dropdown and try re-rendering.

If that doesn’t help, then…

2) Open the render manager, delete all renders for your particular sequence, and re-render.

David Roth Weiss
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[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi David,

1) “Make sure “Full” (and all others too) are checked in the render menu dropdown and try re-rendering.”

– Yes, I have those all checked and no go so…

2) “Open the render manager, delete all renders for your particular sequence, and re-render.”

– There weren’t any effects or reason to render in the first place. Just clips in the timeline. Out of 3 clips, first one was UR, then two and now all three. This has happened on three separate occasions and all of the material is the same res. I just tried deleting a clip and then putting it back in the sequence and it’s still unrendered according to the thumbnail, but has a grey render bar and plays fine (still).

All of the media is on an external drive. I’ve tried to start FCP a couple of times without having the drive connected, and it brought up the associated dialogue box. Could that be the cause?

MacBook Pro 2.4, 1 TB FW800/eSATA enclosure, FCP 6.0.5, QT 7.5.5, OSX 10.5.5

[David Roth weiss]

Eventually everything must get rendered because you’re working with a software only system, unlike all the older Avid products you used to work with.

So, it sounds as if your either your render files or the underlying database are corrupt, so don’t resist, delete the render files in the Render Manager, and then re-render the entire sequence.

If that doesn’t work, it’s possible that your only problem is corrupt thumbnail images, which would require that you close FCP and delete the file “Final Cut Pro Thumbnail Cache” before reopening FCP.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Valerie Shoaps]

Thanks David, deleting the thumbnail cache did it. Looking for ti, I found a nice article describing the files that FCP creates. I’m sure this will come in handy again.

Thanks again,
Valerie

[Maya Kessler]

Hello David Roth Weiss,

I have the same problem as Valerie – Media appears offline but it’s online and rendered;
It happens as my external hard-drive that has all the data on was shut off while connected to the FCP due to electricity fall. SO, now all appears offline. I tried to delete the rendered files and re-render, but that didn’t change a thing. I opened my Thumbnail Cash folder, but the folder is empty, so i can’t even do that.

Any ideas for me?

Thank you so much
Maya, Tel Aviv