-
Unable to open sequence!
Working on a recent project, 8 bit BMD with High quality YUV rendering, I was editing each section as separate sequences, with a view to assembling the final programme from them with copy and paste. One of the sequences refused to open in the Canvas, giving me “general error” then “out of memory”. I also got a RED screen in the canvas on some other sequences telling me to close the canvas an re-open it! My work around the sequence was to highlight it in the browser and do reference movie export and pull it back in. This of course did not allow me to alter any captions etc.
Any ideas what causes this?
Thanks
Roddy Jamieson
-
6 Replies
-
Mistake in above: First error message should read “Operation not allowed” and not “General error”.
Roddy Jamieson
-
I would like to know about this as well since I’ve had this happen a number of times. It always happens after the red screen. In my case, I can usually reproduce it when trying to add a fade effect to to the beginning of a PSD on the top layer of my sequence. I get the same error messages and it seems to then corrupt the sequence. It will not open after that. I’ve had to go to the autosave vault and call up the last saved version to save my project. It’s very annoying since it seems to be a hit or miss situation.
Anybody got any ideas on this one?
Tom -
this may be due to a corrupt clip within the sequence
you might want to first duplicate your project (Save As… )
then in the duplicate, right click or comtrol click the problem sequence as select “Make Offline…” from the context menu
in the Make Offline dialog select the “Action For Media Files: Leave Them on the Disk” option, and click OK
then try to reopen the sequence …… if it works you’ll then have to reconnect your sequence clips either one by one or in small groups.
eventually one of the clips is going to fail to reconnect and that is likely the cause of the problem
for that clip or clips you’ll have to recapture or reimport from source… if it doesn’t work then we’ll have to put our thinking caps back on
-
Worth a try! Thanks.
Tom -
For future situations like this, you can also copy and paste all of the clips into a new sequence. It’s worked for me.
RH
-
Many thanks, I’ll also give it a try.
Roddy Jamieson
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up