Tracking down an FCP Render Issue

[Gary Alan]

Hi Walter.
Yes. All the latest upgrades. I just did a new install a few days ago of everything from scratch, too. So I have a clean system. Motion can also cause a freeze of the whole system almost everyday.

Gary

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

I have experienced all of the above and all my problems were cured by one simple action:

When rendering a long project – and to reduce crashes in general – save your project, then throw everything out of the browser that is not the sequence you are rendering.

Now create a NEW PROJECT with just your ONE sequence to render or output to QT.

Reboot.

Open our NEW SEQUENCE and render or export.

I spent days – weeks – using Disk Warrior, Disk utility, reformatting drives and just about everything else, but this is finally what worked for me.

I have an Octo that’s about 3 months old, 4 Gigs RAM and GRaid drives, BTW.

Hope this helps you as it did me. Let me know, anyway.

best wishes,

Harry

[Daniel Weber]

I have 2 edit systems that both have this issue.

I have never had problems with FCP like this before, and I have been a user since v1.0.

One system is running Leopard and the other Tiger. Any thing that is done in Motion and then inserted into a timeline causes the machine to crash when you try to render.

I took a project from the machine with Tiger and tried to render it on my Leopard machine (2.8 Quad, GeForce 8800, 6 gigs ram). Final Cut crashed with an error message saying that it may have to do with the “ProGraphics” plug in. When I looked at the crash log it pointed to the Nvidia card.

Both systems are running 7.4.1.

I can’t believe that Apple released a version of Quicktime that enabled video rentals but killed all of the people doing production!!!

Daniel Weber

Daniel Weber
Producer
Adventist Television Network

[Mitch Ives]

[Daniel Weber] “I took a project from the machine with Tiger and tried to render it on my Leopard machine (2.8 Quad, GeForce 8800, 6 gigs ram). Final Cut crashed with an error message saying that it may have to do with the “ProGraphics” plug in. When I looked at the crash log it pointed to the Nvidia card.

Both systems are running 7.4.1.

I can’t believe that Apple released a version of Quicktime that enabled video rentals but killed all of the people doing production!!! “

I too have a 2.8 8-core with the 8800 and am having many crashes in FCP. When it crashes it points to any effect as the problem. I’m beginning to wonder about the 8800?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

[Erik Clig]

I think there is a major problem with the 8800 video card!
I have two new 8 core systems with the nvidia card and they both have the same trouble. Both systems crash roufley every hour mostley when i am moving and cropping layers of video.
I first checked and replaced the memory but that didnt solve the problem. Then i put the ati 2600 video card in and everthing was solved! I think that the EFI 1.3 firmware has somthing to do with it. I reported this all (two weeks ago) to a, not realy interested, apple support technician. But they dont know shit, they only looked at the crash reports, which is totally useless because the systems instantly freezes. I’m still wayting on answers, I like to know when i can use the 8800 again…