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Timeline Damaged?
Yesterday while working on a FCP timeline I had an error message pop up: “Not found.” Immediately afterwards it says “Error: Not enough memory.” I am pretty positive this is not a out of memory problem, but something else. There is nothing in this timeline that would eat up much memory, and I have tried it on another G5 workstation with around 4GB of memory.
The timeline would not display after this. I exported an XML file of the timeline. When I try to import it, I recieve the following errors.
Sat, Aug 6, 2005, 4:32 PM – Errors Found Importing timeline
Two clips found to be overlapping on a track. The second will overwrite the first.( line 2946 )
XML defines two clips overlapping on a track. Unsupported sequence edit.( line 3488 )Can anyone give me an idea as to how to get this project back? I have put over 5 days of work into it. I can email you the XML file if you can help me.
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3 Replies
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Could be corrupt media. Put all your media in the trash and then try to access the timeline with it all offline. If you can access your timeline it’s most likley a media problem. If so, then pull small groups of media out of the trash and recconect to find the suspect media file or files.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
Ram 1.38
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3 -
Generally when the XML imorter complains like this, you’ll still get a reasonable sequence, with the problematic clips left out. If you open the XML in a text editor and look at the lines mentioned, you should be able to deduce which are the problematic clips, by looking at the closest <clipitem> element and at the <name> element inside it. Also, there’s a <start> element which gives the clip offset in the sequence in frames, which might help you locate the troublesome spot in the timeline.
Hope this helps,
John. -
this has happened to me as well. I anaylzed the clips where my timeline would stop playing and discovered that if I moved one clip onto another track the remaining clip next to it automatically extended to fill the gap. This seem wrong and where the problem lies. I recut in those 2 clips and things seemed fine.
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