Randyp
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It may be a storage problem–not enough room. What drive is your QuickTime being render to? Is there enough room there for it?
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This may be related to having a set of preferences from an old version, but where are your “Scratch Disks” designated under “System Settings?” Maybe your render files are going to the worng place.
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Just checked to be sure. We’re running Boris Red 3.04. Thanks for asking.
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I never found a specific solution to the “Won’t Open” problem I had with FCP 4.5. Upgrading to FCP 5.0.4 seems to have left most of these problems behind, but I also have not yet worked on a project as large or intricate as the one I was working on back in FCP 4.5 before I upgraded.
Did you try trashing FCP preferences? If you have it installed, use FCP Rescue to trash and restore your preferences. If you don’t have FCP Rescue, trash your FCP preferences anyway, but you’ll have to manually reset everything the next time FCP opens up because it will automatically establish the default preference settings. (If you don’t have FCP Rescue, get it for this kind of situation in the future.)
Here is advice I copied from a previous post MATTE offered on this subject:
The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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I never found a specific solution to the “Won’t Open” problem I had with FCP 4.5. Upgrading to FCP 5.0.4 seems to have left most of these problems behind, but I also have not yet worked on a project as large or intricate as the one I was working on back in FCP 4.5 before I upgraded.
Did you try trashing FCP preferences? If you have it installed, use FCP Rescue to trash and restore your preferences. If you don’t have FCP Rescue, trash your FCP preferences anyway, but you’ll have to manually reset everything the next time FCP opens up because it will automatically establish the default preference settings. (If you don’t have FCP Rescue, get it for this kind of situation in the future.)
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Do audio mixdown before making QT.
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I assume you need to maintain your time code. Otherwise, you can try capturing live using the “Now” button in the Log and Capture Window. This should allow capture, but without time code.
If time code is essential, and you have the equipment, you can try what I’ve done in a case like this. I make a new tape with black and burned-in time code, then I make a QSDI copy of the bad T.C. DVCAM tape to the new tape. I have use of a Sony RM-450 Eding Control Unit and two Sony DSR-60 DVCAM decks, so I make an insert edit from the bad tape to the new at the same point in T.C., copying in QSDI mode.
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One more thing:
A trick I sometimes use when I don’t have enough footage to capture for proper “trim handles” is to make a freeze frame clip in FCP (it’s a choice under “Modify”) and render the clip and frozen frame as a quicktime movie with a length sufficient for the needed trim handles. Depending on the type of transition, the frozen frame part of the QTM might not be seen or be obvious in the transition.
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“Trim Handles”–I knew there was a proper name for those thingies.
Thanks.
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Oops! Sorry!
I gave you some information in error when I said your clips needed to be “butted up end to end at the points where the transition is to begin and the transition is to end.” What I should have expalined is that you need “overlap”–frames from your clips not shown on the timeline, beyond the the out point of the outgoing clip and before the in point of the incoming clip, necessary for the transition. Half of the transition for each clip is taken up by the overlap and half is from what is shown on the timeline, depending on the transition’s duration.
It took me a while to figure this out from the manuals. I kept fighting the thing, trying to make transitions longer in duration without success, until a co-worker suggested leaving ample off-timeline overlaping frames. In some cases ut mean recapturing clips with more frames before and after.
Again, hope this helps.