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  • Rendering Error

    Posted by Jared Bistrong on November 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    I’ve been working on this project for a month–everything has been smooth; suddenly, today, when I try to render I get an error that reads: File Error: Unknown File

    I have tried saving, opening and closing the project, and even other projects to no avail. All media is on-line.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

    Jared Bistrong

    Zoe Weslowski replied 14 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Grant Gomm

    November 28, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    What version of fcp are you using?

    -Grant Gomm
    http://www.grantgomm.com

  • Jared Bistrong

    November 28, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    Thanks Grant. . .sorry!

    FCP 7.0.3

  • Zoe Weslowski

    November 29, 2011 at 2:00 am

    I know this message, I have gotten this before. I was not able to open up my project at all. However, I was not that far into my project when I started having that problem. So, I made copies of the project as I worked – pretty much every time I did an edit sequence, I made a copy. This was NOT the optimal way to work, however, I was able to open a prior saved copy and work from there. I had to delete the project I was working on, as it was not possible to do anything with it. I hope you found a better way/or resolution to this. Were you able to re-open, recover???

  • Jared Bistrong

    November 29, 2011 at 2:11 am

    Still haven’t got this figured out. Very strange! I opened up several different projects–but still getting the same error. Can’t find anything about this error anywhere. . .hmmmm.

  • Jared Bistrong

    November 29, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    The project and others are all opening fine. . .when I go to render is when I get the error: “File Error: Unknown File”. . .very frustrating.

  • Zoe Weslowski

    November 29, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    OK, have you tried saving a duplicate copy and opening from that copy and then trying your rendering there? I’m just suggesting that as that’s exactly what I had to do.

  • Jared Bistrong

    November 29, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Zoe. . .yes, thanks. I tried making a copy. . .still nothing. I’ve opened up projects that have nothing to do with this and have even started new ones. . .No rendering. . .weird. It was working fine two days ago. . .

  • Jared Bistrong

    November 29, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    I seemed to have got it working. . .I changed the location of the scratch disks. . .which I’m not entirely happy about. . .but well, I’m up and working. . .thanks!!

  • Zoe Weslowski

    November 29, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    Man, Final Cut is full of surprises….

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