Mike Bugera
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Here’s a follow-up. I did a little test to see what was happening in the ‘Render Files’ folder. I dumped all the render files & started from scratch.
I rendered three timelines that had two transitions each, for a total of six render files. No problem.
I then batch exported all three, keeping my eye on the ‘Render Files’ folder. As soon as the batch was complete I watched as four render files vanished from the ‘Render Files’ folder, leaving just two render files. I looked in the trash and they weren’t there.
I tried this again to three separate timelines but exported each from its own timeline, not batched. No problem. But as soon as I quit FCP four render files vanished from the ‘Render Files’ folder, leaving only two. Again, not in the trash.
Each time the timeline left untouched was the last of the three timelines. I’m totally baffled!
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Agreed, but with an average of 65 timelines per project at about 8 minutes each, the time it would take to do that and the space it would take for each of those self contained movies is not an option with my company. We used to do it that way.
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I guess the old standby advice would be a good idea here: trash your preferences and see if that takes care of it.
I just came from a company that had a MacPro that we upgraded to FCS 7; a MacBook that we clean installed 7 on and the company I just started with last week that got a MacBook Pro that we clean installed 7 on and I haven’t encountered that problem, and I use both of those features often. So I can tell you it’s not FCS 7.
Hopefully trashing the prefs works.Mike
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It’s a very lengthy process. It’s essentially wiping that data completely clean off your drive, as opposed to leaving traceable pieces of it that can be recovered, which is what regular empty trash does. Will be worth it if it solves the problem. Hopefully it’ll do the trick.
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Go up to Finder. There should be an option under Empty Trash that says Secure Empty Trash. It takes longer but it’s more thorough.
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Only other thing I can think of is to do a Secure Empty Trash…if you haven’t already.
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Not sure the reason but try holding down the option key while emptying the trash. That usually will dump anything.
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I should add, I’m working from a 500GB G-Raid, which is a RAID 0.
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Actually, I have P2CMS on both computers. The MacPro is seeing and importing the footage, the MacBook isn’t. Tried the demo for Raylight on the MacBook. It claims to be processing the clips with no problem but it won’t import into FCP.
Think I’ll throw my hands up on this. Thanks for your help. -
Interesting…I just noticed that nowhere on or in the new Mac does it say G5. They’re now MacPros. Good to know.
Yes, same version of FCP and Quicktime on both. Yes, they are both Intels. I did notice that the MacBook is running a newer version of the OS (10.5.8) than the MacPro (10.5.6). Can’t imagine that has anything to do with it.
I should add, the footage in question was transferred to this drive elsewhere and brought to me. We originally tried importing it on our old G5 and FCP5 with no luck. Nothing, not ‘Import’, not ‘P2CMS’ would recognize it. There’s no ‘Contents’ folder or ‘lastclip.txt’ file on it.
We just upgraded to a PowerMac and FCP7 two weeks ago and it pulled the footage in fine through ‘Import’, not ‘Log & Transfer’.
The MacBook, though, won’t recognize the footage in the project, just turns it white and screams ‘General Error’.
All other new P2 footage we’ve shot comes in and plays fine.