[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

OK – as I fix a photo and resize and reimport it seems to work. I can’t imagine why they were working and then quit working. I really think you are right about the preferences. I will go back and do that again on the new drive as well. While it does give me hope that I can just fix the 50 or so bad clips I don’t have any assurance that the same thing would not happen again, so I want to try and fix it so that FCP recognizes them correctly.

BRB right after this set of changes.
Thanks again – I am beginning to think there is a light at the end of this dark long tunnel.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Another piece of info – I could not even copy the file back from my source file and get it to work. So I used the little HP photo edit program and resized it to 640 x 480 and it worked. I am going to try a section of photos and try to do the same thing with the offending clips and see if that works. BRB

Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

It is starting to connect the dots. I was starting to remove the photos which have the red bar above them – even though nothing was happening with them – no animations or anything but they now have the red bar over them. When I double click them all i get is a white screen. When I find them in finder the photo is there. i deleted it from FCP and reimported it and it has the same problem with not showing up. It is a 1600 x 1200 pixel jpg – only 208KB in size.

BTW – when I trashed the prefs i set up another 1 TB drive which had 95 GB free on it as the render drive and so FCP has already created a new render folder and everything associated with it before starting the last render. Do I need to still clean it out?

Thanks – I feel like we are making progress.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Jeremey

I just followed your excellent instructions to the letter and pulled up the file again – reset everything like it was and it has now tried to render a 10 second Motion fire effects clip. At about the 2 minutes remaining mark out of a 6 minute render – I get the same General Error message. I am now going to try rendering as a Quicktime movie and see if it does that any better.

Be right back with more info
Thanks

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

Thanks so much -at least it sounds like a good thing to try. I have certainly not done that. I will do those steps now and be back in a few minutes.

Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

All photos are located on the same 1 TB drive with 185GB free. That is also the render drive. I do not know what you mean by “trashed prefs”. I have not done anything to them and they appear to be exactly what they were before the disaster by Apple

Thanks

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

I can really appreciate all of these “Other product suggestions” but this is not the time. I am now down to 33 hours before this show has to be ready (if I do not sleep) and it is 99.9% done except for the disaster caused by Apple’s thoughtlessness. Quick workarounds inside FCP will be the most helpful at this time – please.

Again, this is my oldest daughter’s wedding and I am trying to get this ready.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

I tried that and when I did 3 second movies it was OK, 10 seconds was OK, but when I went to a 1 minute movie – I get the usual “General Error”. This was rendering to QT. It does the same thing if I try to render anything from the sequence menu. If I just select a single cross dissolve transition – and chose Sequence – Render Selection – Video – it gets the same General Error with no other info.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Scott

It sounds like you may be suffering the same problem I am suffering from – 6.0.4 is a killer for me and I have not recovered from it. I am the previous post to yours. If you find a solution please let me know.
Thanks
George

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

Richard

Thanks for reading the post – This is standard def – 720 x 480, compressor – DV/DVCPRO -NTSC. I am not using any effects that are not native built into FCP. I am only using the basic cross dissolve and every 5th or 6th photo I use one of the other basic effects transitions.

Thanks for helping

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan