[David Johnson]

Thanks, John. I too have gotten general errors many times over the years, but not so much in the past few years and I don’t recall specifically getting error 88 before so that’s what I searched for.

Thanks for the good workaround suggestion … I got a couple others in the FCP forum too.

I think Apple eventually will drop Final Cut development since the company clearly doesn’t need it any more, but I hope it doesn’t happen any time soon. I’m glad others are starting to discuss the possibility though … hopefully plausible next steps will follow.

[David Johnson]

Have you tried converting those MP3 and CAF files to AIFs? I’ve never encountered this problem since I always convert audio to either AIF or WAV so I’m not sure that’ll solve the issue you’re having, but it’s definitely worth a shot since most pro video software doesn’t deal well with media that’s in delivery formats instead of editing formats.

Hope that helps.

[David Johnson]

Good to know, thanks … I’ll use I/O points next time, as Dave L. also suggested. About exporting, the sequences are already made of what are, for all practical purposes, exports … I’m just tagging the spots so the content of each sequence is just the spot exports (pre-edited ProRes 422 MOVs), the tags (PSDs) and some FCP-generated mastering elements (bars, tone, slates, black, etc.).

[David Johnson]

[Chris Blair] “These are just 4 of MANY trends we’ve seen since the economic bust two years ago. Are we just that “unlucky” or are others experiencing similar trends?”

No, you absolutely are not just “unlucky” … I think it’s true that better-faster-cheaper with heavy emphasis on the cheaper has always been the trend in every industry, but in my 20 years in the business, I’ve never before seen such an extreme acceleration of the issues that come along with that as I’ve seen in the past 5 or so years.

I haven’t had a chance to read the entire thread yet, but certainly will come back to do that since this subject hits extremely close to home with me and is the reason that, as much as I hate to say it, I’m looking at the front door, so to speak … in regards to the business I love so much in general, not just my specific current job.

I don’t mean to quote somebody out of context, but a great line Mark Suszko reminded me of in another recent post comes to mind … “I’m taking the goldfish”. Let the folks with their HD cell phone cameras and iMovie have at it as far as I’m concerned. Hmm … do I sound bitter!? lol

[David Johnson]

Doh! Good catch, Michael. Perhaps I shouldn’t try to answer questions when my brain is all mushy. lol

[David Johnson]

It must be a browser issue … perhaps cache or something … with the following thread, for example, they’re all showing up now, but they didn’t show 5, 10 or 15 minutes after I made each post.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1113869#1113869

[David Johnson]

The project files are already very small … I just didn’t explain what I’m doing very well … I’ve just got a small master project file with 7 sequences … one sequence has 6 spots with bars/tone/slate and the others just have each of those 6 spots individually with a slate and the spot only. I just make a gazillion duplicates of that small master project file and change the end tags and slates for each one so not much for FCP to choke on really.

[David Johnson]

Thanks for responding David.

I have what I call “Beta Master” sequences specifically for going straight to tape so they have bars, tone, slate, etc. and I don’t export those at all … I really can’t export those because I tag the same 6 spots hundreds of times and can’t store exports or render files for any of them … just the FCP project files that all reference the same media (except slightly different end screens and slates). I only export the separate sequences that don’t have BTS so I can use those to make digital delivery files, DVDs, web files, etc. … I can’t even keep those exports once all the deliverables are made since it would take copious amounts of storage for 6 spots times hundreds of versions.

I’m not sure I said that right, but it makes perfect sense to me. ;~)

[David Johnson]

Thanks for responding Dave … never too many workaround options. Disabling the clips worked fine too and I can just re-enable them if I need them again later.

[David Johnson]

It seems you should have posted in the Flash forum since you’re asking for info about Flash functions. That said, something you may want to consider is what you need to deliver … if it’s truly “video” (for TV, DVD, etc.), AE will likely be the best bet … if it’s a web page or web page element/presentation, Flash will likely be the best bet.