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rendering question
I was organizing my files and folders, and I must of moved something that had some render files in it. When I start up FCP, I get the “offline files” message that says all my render files went offline.
It says I have 1 media file offline and 228 render files offline. Th puzzling part is if I just continue, the video plays just fine – no rendering needed, no rendering bar. But I can’t export using compressor because it says it can’t find any render files.
So when I hit “reconnect”, it takes me to the menu to reconnect the media. When I search, it finds nothing.
When I look at my media hard drive, I see my projects and see render folders. So there are render folders there. The only thing I can think of what happened is I had duplicate render folders, and when I cleaned up and organized, I must of deleted the duplicate and erased the trash.
I would think when you render, it would create the render files into the appropriate folder. So I guess the solution would be to re-render the whole video, which is fine since I have the time. Would that the best solution?
And if so, what is the best way to accomplish this?
Sidebar: In my media hard drive, I have a folder that says ‘render files’ and each video project I’m working on has a folder within. Is that the best method for storage? Or is it best to have each project as a folder, with it’s own render files folder within the video project folder?
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2 Replies
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I would first use the render manager to delete the renders for the project (under tools). Then make sure you change your capture scratch to the right folder that you want it in.
Does that help when you export to compressor?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT -
Thanks for the tip. I thought that would work… but not quite. I checked everything in the render manager to remove, re-rendered – and ended up with the same problem.
Although, I may be closer to a solution. When I open up the render manager, I see 2 folders. One folder, CII, is the name of the project I’m working on.
The second folder is named ‘additional render files’. here’s the hierarchy for that folder:
Additional render files/CII (name of my project)/CII 2 (my second edit of that project – another sequence)/2 files – audio items and audio mixdown
Not too sure how to proceed next. My scratch disks are set correctly, so I’m guessing one of these needs to be deleted completely off my hard drive and that will solve my problem.
Not 100% sure.
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