Timeline will not render

[Wendall Woodbury]

BINGO! The COW mooes tonght! You hit the nail on the head Jon. Moments after I sent the last message I figured out ‘offline’ unlinks an AVI. I never knew that. I applied your renaming method, with the underline. Even just clicking the ‘offline’ on a stuck conforming file seemed to keep the conforming process moving along, until it was eventally completed. I renamed 3 different files before it was done. Now, at 2am, the project is rendering beautifully and I am one happy camper!!! I think I re-captured tape 21 for naught (I’m sure the ‘re-naming’ would have done it) but, at least the project is functioning again and in-sync.

It’s been a long, ardous road back from the loss of my source harddrive last week and a big lesson learned. From now on, it’s back-up ‘duplicate’ harddrives for me! I’ve been working pretty much night and day re-capturing all the video, and re-adjusiing dozens of shots. But, this proves a lost project can be reclaimed. This last problem of not being able to ‘render’ the final project was the most frustrating. The answer seems so simple…once you know it! So, thanks so much for sticking with me on this problem Jon. I really appreciate it. This is a great forum! i hope this thread helps someone else, as it has me.

Best regards,
Wendall

Filmmaker42

[Jon Barrie]

You’re welcome and congratulations Wendall.
Glad to have helped and it all worked out for you.
– Jon 😉
Happy Editing

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Joey Dunbar]

jon i have been tyring to render a timeline in APP CS4 and it only renders a few clips, could that be that there isnt much space on my drive? ill will have you know i only have about 10g left on my 250 haha could this be a problem for the rendering?

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Joey,

it depends. I’d say that having less than 10% of your hard drive space available is never good for workinget alone rendering.

Do u have another hard drive u could export to then use that single file as your export to tape? Just to get it out.

I’d clean up the nearly full hard drive for starters. Then try to complete the render.

If it’s still not happy see if there is anything common about the clips that won’t render. Are they yellow in the top of the timeline?

– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net
http://www.suiteskills.com

[Joey Dunbar]

i actually just went out earlier today and bought a 1.5t hard drive that i will be transferring pretty much just about everything. to give my mac a whole new life. but once everything is cleaned up im going to try it all again and hopefully that will be the problem.