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yellow warning symbol
I moved my project into compressor to encode last night. When I got up this morning, there was an error message saying that FCP unexpectedly closed. I checked the file on my desktop where I was saving the encoded project and only the M2v file was there. No audio file. The history showed that the encode failed. I noticed this little yellow warning symbol on the mpeg2 bar of my project but not on the dolby 2 bar. I clicked on the yellow warning symbol and it said that this file is named the same as another file and will overwrite it. Since then, I’ve tried re-coding using 3 different file names and 3 different file locations and all give me the same warning and result. What am I missing?
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The warning symbol you can’t re-encode that file to the same location with the same name, if that’s the one I think you’re writing about. Try changing the name of the output file and see if it goes away.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
The warning doesn’t use the verbage “can’t re-encode”, just that it will overwrite the file that exists with the same name. That’s why I changed the name of the file, 3 different times with the same weird result. I assume by when you call it an “output file”, that we are on the same page as this is a compressor issue as this is where the warning symbol is at. FCP quitting and the file warning may or not be related and may be the same problem???
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I don’t know what warning symbol you’re talking about now. You’d better post a screenshot. Obvious FCP is crashing during the compression. Make sure the media drives are correctly formatted and they are not going to sleep.
I dislike and recommend against sharing to Compressor. I think the applications work better if you export to QuickTime Movie and encode the exported file.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
ok. I’ll sniff around on some previous posts on how to post a screenshot. I’ve never done one. I know it’s not a drive issue. I just encoded a shorter project the day before and a large blu ray project last weekend with no issues.
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Take a screenshot. Put it on the web somewhere. Post the URL.
Because it didn’t happen on different types of projects should not dismiss the drive as a possible cause. Every encode, both source and process, is different, especially if you’re going directly from an FCP sequence.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Hi Tom. Your diligence is appreciated. I can’t think of a place on the web I can upload the screen shot. I shot it with my phone and sent it to my email account. I can email it and was trying to see if there was a way to send it to my post, but I know nothing of HTML code etc…pretty sure I’ll blow up the Cow’s server if I try to mess with that.
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Flickr or PhotoBucket are the easiest.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Cow will let you upload an image right here
Best,
Jeff G
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Here’s a link to the screenshot although I’m not sure that this is the info you need..
https://s1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/sharpcarstore/?action=view¤t=2011-01-19220839.jpg
I will say that the entire M2v file went to it’s target destination and when I double click on it, I get a beautiful movie that opens up in mpeg streamclip. I have no audio. The audio file didn’t encode or show up in the target destination file with the video. Twice however, in two different files, I had the same result with the video and without the audio. Also note, the yellow warning triangle appeared on the audio file as well, but when I clicked on the first symbol, the audio symbol went away and never came back.
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The yellow triangle has nothing to do with the problem, but the naming convention as I said earlier. I don’t know why your audio isn’t being processed. Is it switched off in the timeline? Did you try exporting to QuickTime Movie? Do you get a complete file, audio and video, in the QT player?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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