[Michael Garske]

So it got past 92% and at some point came up with the message “out of disk space”.

However, the drive I am rendering to has 400Gb free so I’m not sure how that could be an issue.

Any idea?

[Michael Garske]

It was all rendered. I trashed the render cache and re-rendered. It’s getting further along now, although it’s taking a while. The strange thing is that in the activity monitor Final Cut is constantly becoming non-responsive and then resuming the render. It’s also only using 6-13% of the CPU which seems odd because there are no other programs running.

Have you, or anyone else, seen that kind of behavior while rendering a complex timeline in FCP? What could cause such a thing?

We’re on a 12 core machine with 16Gb of Ram so I wouldn’t think this should be the norm. We also recently re-installed the OS to attempt to knock any weird software issues.

Thanks for your input.

Mike

[Michael Garske]

I added some titles to my timeline as well & now it no longer renders. Anyone have any ideas on this, it’s kind of a nightmare.

[Michael Garske]

Thanks for you’re speedy response. You guys rock.

[Michael Garske]

Do you mean export-quicktime movie? Is that generic export considered a reference movie? If that’s the case it would take a lot of added time to export in that way as well as using compressor.

Ideally what I’d like to be able to do is set all them in a list to render over night so I wouldn’t need to baby sit each export.

[Michael Garske]

How do you make a reference movie? Does it have to render that out to make a QT file?

[Michael Garske]

Thanks for the advice I’ve never used a wipe in that way before it’s a clever idea. A simple way for linear masks any way. I wish they would put a pen tool for drawing your own masks in FCP itself. my system can’t handle Motion all that well.

[Michael Garske]

Wow, So much helpful advice!
Thanks guys.

Michael Garske

[Michael Garske]

haha sorry I just figured this out & now I feel dumb for asking a stupid question. But I am stoked for all these new fonts!

Thanks for the speedy response.

Michael Garske

[Michael Garske]

Hey Leon,

I did get it to work with some success. However, the steps that I took to do so were extremely time consuming.

First I captured the HDV footage 1080i60 in FCP, then I would drop it into a timeline & space each clip with a couple seconds of black between them. Although I don’t remember the particulars, as I haven’t had access to an FCP system in quite some time. I would then do some brief color corrections in FCP, down-convert the timeline to some flavor of DVCAM (don’t recall which) & print the timeline to a DVCAM tape. This way I have a HD tape and a SD tape, which, is CC with only usable & organized clips. Then I would recapture the DVCAM tape into my PC system using Vegas.

There is probably a much simpler way of doing this using Compressor. I wasn’t successful in getting any decent results with Compressor & since I needed the SD clips for a PC system the most logical path for me was to recapture them. I felt it was easiest & most effective to do the whole thing in FCP. The quality didn’t seem to suffer at all using FCP exclusively as opposed to using Compressor.

Also just shooting in SD would be much simpler. But if you can shoot HD may as well.

Hope this helps some. If you discover any settings that work well please give a holler.

Mike