Hi there Charlie NZ I am struggling to output my project. I am still using old fcp7 and am getting the File error mentioned above – after waiting the hours it takes to try and output my 1hour project. I tried telling spotlight to not index the fcp doc folders’ render files… but still do not seem to be able to output the pic. It is an hour worth of doco and … yeah it just won’t come out! Is there an issue given I have been cutting for a long time and have a number of past project files related to the project (my way of trying to reduce the size – keeping old sequences in past projects, deleting the old sequences from the new project and thereby reducing project file size)? Does the spotlight solution only work if you do it prior to starting a cut? any help you can offer would be great… any other solutions….