[Fred Grossberg]

I’m experiencing a similar problem with H.264. My settings are quite different, but FCP crashes every time I set it to exceed a certain bitrate. Also, I’ve tried doing the encoding using Quicktime Pro and it also crashes, so I assume there’s some problem with the encoder that is shared by FCP and Quicktime Pro.

Is anyone else having these problems?

[Fred Grossberg]

OK I just solved it. I had my audio outputs set up wrong. Too little sleep. Sorry to trouble you.

Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thanks to all of you for valuable info. This is a great forum.

Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thanks for this. It makes a lot of sense. –Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thanks for the good tip. It worries me to delete render files because I’m working in uncompressed and renders can take a couple of hours. Plus if a drive went down in the middle of a re-render after I’d deleted all my render files, I’d be missing a key element of the project. It seems counterintuitive to delete all my files when what I’m really wanting to do is back them up. The other problem with uncompressed is that it’s almost impossible to see an effect until it’s rendered. So I have a lot of interim render files. Then, at the end of a long day, what I really want to do is back up only the files that I still need. Although I understand your logic, I just don’t want to delete those files that took me so long to acquire.

Maybe my workflow is the issue.

I really do appreciate your help.

–Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thanks for the suggestion. But ‘m reluctant to do that because if anything goes wrong with the rerender I’m left with no render files at all. Plus I’d like to purge obsolete files every time I do a backup which is at least once a day, so purging is not just a one-shot deal. I’m working in uncompressed, so the render files are pretty big. How about the idea of setting the undo pref to 0? Won’t Final Cut then just purge all unnecessary render files automatically?–Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Hey Jeremy — I just went into Render Manager and all I see there under the sequence I’m concerned with is one entry that is called “Video.” I assume that’s all the render files for that sequence. But I don’t want to delete them all, just the ones that have been superceded. –Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thank you, Walter. –Fred

[Fred Grossberg]

Thank you. Where in the Edit To Tape window do you set the beginning t.c.?

[Fred Grossberg]

This time D5. Before, a Panasonic 1200.