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Smoothcam fails to render
This is driving me crazy. I have a multicam edit going, 3 angles, DVCProHD 720p24p. All the clips have been analyzed. And when I’m at the office on a G5 quad the footage renders fine. Bring the drive home to work on my 8-core and I get the red screen with failed to render.
Both systems are running OS 10.5.8 and FCP 6.0.6
My Intel has a Kona 3 (tried 7.0 and 6.5 NDD
G5 has Kona LHe with 6.5 NDDMy Intel started having this problem after I tried the AJA 7 driver but it went away (for a bit) when I down graded to 6.5 driver, then it started doing it with that. I uninstall the AJA driver and that fixed it for a little bit but now it is doing it without any driver.
Anyone else having the problem or know of a work around?
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10 Replies
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You need to reanalyze
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That is days! But like I said this same drive hooked up to the other system and these same clips with the same mtdf files render fine.
Just took out the Kona card and the files are rendering now.
I would not analyze all the footage this way but it is way the client wants it done, I normally export the clip that needs it but we have about 8 hours of footage that has been analyzed.
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Hi Michael,
Are you sure that you have enough room in your system HD for all that analyzing reports, Virtual memory, caches, etc?
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all the footage is 100% analyzed. it is just the rendering of clips in timeline that I apply the filter to. But for the time being it is completing the renders now that I pulled the Kona card,
But lately it works and then it does, I uninstalled the kona driver and it works for a bit, tonight it took me pulling the card before it would render smoothcam.
But I have 70GB of free HD on system (only a 300GB HD), 1.6TB on Media drives and 8GB or RAM.
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So, let me get this straight. You analyzed the files on the work G5, moved the project to a poratble drive, and then they won’t render on that system. is that right?
Jeremy
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No.
First all files are on an external HD (eSata RAID 0) so the same HD is being used on both systems. The render scratch is set to this HD also (but I have tried changing it to my media drive also.
Clips were analyzed on my Mac Pro over a weekend. Tested some rendering, everything is fine.
Take the HD back to the office, edit on a G5 Quad, apply SC filter to clips every now and then renders fine.
After a week at work bring the drives back to my place, all the clips that have SC apply now have a RED screen, cannot render SC filter on them.
Uninstall Kona drivers, SC clips render fine for a bit, after a restart files back to red screen and cannot render, remove card, things are back to working.But the clips ALWAYS render on the G5.
I’m just trying to move these project along a little faster by working on them at night but this is making things a little tough.
My concern is I might have a bad card. One other thing, normally I cannot do a restart on my MacPro, if I do a restart the system will not boot up, it shuts down and then hangs on a black screen. I always need to do a shut down, wait a few minutes and then it boots up fine. Since I have removed the Kona card it is doing a restart just fine.
I guess I need to call AJA but never at home during the day now.
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Hmm. I’d try installing the NDD version of the Kona drivers and see if that fixes it.
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They are the only version I install.
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Yeah, I’d definitely call AJA on that one.
Jeremy
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Trashed the FCP prefs and cache files, downgraded the firmware of the card to 32 bit versions as per AJA customer service and things seem to be working okay for the time being.
Thanks for your help.
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