[Charlie Nz]

Hey everyone,

I had this problem as did other people at my work and we tried all the fixes possible, but were still getting this message, so I sepnt a little time and found this fix. I have applied it to all our G5’s and so far so good, batch rendering is once again possible. I noticed all posts on this problem seem to be workarounds not fixes, so spread the word.

Basically you need to stop Spotlight from tracking your FCP render files.

This (render issue) can happen because of the way that Final Cut Pro caches data while rendering, not because of any issue with Spotlight.

To prevent this from happening, you can tell Spotlight not to index the Render Files folder in your Scratch Disk:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab to reveal the areas that Spotlight will not index.
In the Finder, open your “Final Cut Pro Documents” folder.
Drag the Render Files folder into Spotlight’s list

More info at this site:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302790

Happy rendering.