[Gareth Wyn davies]

Hi all,

I’ve been having a similar problem with FCP7 – “File Error: Access Denied” on render. This is typical of a read/write permissions problem. But when I changed the read/write permissions, no effect initially. However, when I changed the capture/render scratch in System Settings to another hard drive, and then changed it back again it worked. Bizarre, but i’m rendering again.

The most likely explanation I can offer is that FCP hadn’t realised that the read/write permissions had changed. FCP does occasionally come up with some weird minor glitches like this, as does Snow Leopard (like applying read only permissions to drives without your knowledge).

I recommend changing your render scratch drive, rendering a couple of clips, then changing it back again.

[Gareth Wyn davies]

Hi Jerry,

I think you may be right. This wouldn’t be the first time that Apple and Sony’s XDCAM have decided not to play nice (Snow Leopard didn’t like the Leopard version of XDCAM Transfer, as I recall).

Exporting through Compressor seems to work fine, so I think that’s what I’ll be doing. The only worry is when you’re having to edit and comrpess on the fly on your MacBook Pro, experience would have me use as few applications at one time as possible, so as to not overheat the poor thing! But I guess that’s the risk you take when you decide to recompress all frames on a MacBook Pro.

Thanks for the reply,
Gareth

[Gareth Wyn davies]

Hi Jerry,

The sequence settings are XDCAM EX 720p50 35Mbps.

Gareth