The Share Operation Master File has Failed – when creating a frame (error -1)

[John Smith]

This is just more screwed up programming by Apple, I am becoming so sick of their inability to programme a decent application that I feel like being done with them.

This was an occasional issue under OS X Lion, mostly I could do what I liked whilst it was sharing/creating the master files. But it basically comes down to if you use any other application or process whilst FCPX is mastering then it will likely fail. This includes sleep, which is suppose to be so much more efficient since Mavericks, but in reality it’s the same steaming pile of stupidity it was under Mountain Lion. Almost no application responds or makes use of the new setup procedure for making the computer sleep at the correct times, it worked almost perfectly under Lion OSX so why the hell change it to something that causes more energy consumption as everyone has to have the computer running excessively due to the rigid nature of using Caffeine. FCPX whilst mastering will still sleep, and this will screw up your master. And unlike applications like After Effects, when it screws up after 3 hours, it doesn’t retain anything of what it did, so you can’t even start again from where it failed.

Make sure no other applications are running, and make sure you have caffeine running and make sure it’s set to indefinite if your share/master is going to be a very long one. My last master must have taken over the 5 hours as it failed due to my caffeine preferences having been reset to a default of 5 hours for some reason. This barely ever happened under Lion OS X, it only become a consistent issue under Mountain Lion and is now a case where I can’t export anything without this issue in Mavericks, in fact I can’t even have multiple share/masters queued up with the option to have them load in Quicktime after completion as this causes the next Master in the queue to fail. So make sure the “after mastering pull down option” is set to “do nothing”, otherwise it will screw-up the next item in the queue.

We need a new company like what Apple used to be, as all the software they produce is deficient, some nice elements of functionality that makes you want to use the software, but so much poor functionality they never sort out it makes using their systems a constant dirge of annoyances, aggravations and slow working. I haven’t used Windows based systems properly for a long time, I know they have improved a lot, feel like returning to them. Though I guess they’ll not be that much improved… I am making a point to never learn another piece of Apple software, as it always turns out to be way more hassle than it’s worth, they rarely get them working properly, and any OS X update often just screws the whole process up again. It’s a mindless round of perpetual aggravations. It’s a case of: is the improved computer performance of updating the operating system worth the stress and hassle of dealing with all the lose of functionality that you will get in other respects.

I officially hate Apple software and shall look else where whenever possible from now on…

[John Smith]

hmmmmmm…. seems a lot of these issues are solved by making sure App Nap is disabled (if your using Mavericks), there’s a check-box in the file information window for the FCPX application (“cmd I” when application icon is selected (in finder)) that by default is checked. Since unchecking the box I seem to be able to edit and stuff without causing the frame error… well so far anyway, usually when you change something the problem briefly goes a way just to wind you up some more. Though it does appear to have solved it.

Hopefully that will also solve the export queue issue…

[Lisa Johnson]

I have had this error message many times, and found a fairly easy solution. Write down what frame the message says the error occurred at. Go to the pull down menu under Final Cut Pro and select Preferences. Click on the General tab. Change the time display to frames. Go to that frame in your project and edit it out. I have then been able to share (export) the project. Hope this works for you!