Ron Dylewski
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Have you actually tried to “see” it using Disk Warrior? Sometimes, though a drive
doesn’t appear on the desktop, DW will be able to see it, and you can then rebuild the directory. It’s worth looking, if you haven’t already.Ron
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I had a similar problem recently. The only fix I found was to replace the offending file, in my case it was an animation which was in QT format. I completely deleted it, re-imported it and that fixed the rendering problem.
With that said, I started to have this same problem pop up yesterday on a project. I found that I could get the segments to render if I highlighted them and used “render selection.”
Ron
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Walter –
Thanks! I actually do trust these guys, but it never hurts to double check!
Ron
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I did (eventually – after downing 3 tabs of nitroglycerin…) pull out
Disk Warrior…and it rebuilt the directory…and all is well. Scary, though,
as I had backed up other projects to that drive and that was the only place
they existed.Just as an aside, I was amazed at the poor customer service from Maxtor. The guy on the tech support said they don’t do any support for Macs…or Linux…or….. He almost sounded proud of the fact!
Now I can breath easy. Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Ron
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Hi –
One final odd note on this. After I got the corrupted clip back in place and and rendered it, I went off and made some more tweaks. Then, at some point, I started getting a message that the render files were no good and did I want to use the render mgr to purge them…
I had no choice, so I did this, and had to re-render all my efx. Obviously a gnarly timeline that I will avoid once I’m done with it!
Ron
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Nicholas –
They are all checked.
I have now gotten this to work, but I’m not sure I’ll know what happened (other than a splattered file somewhere!)
I have a piece of animation (w/alpha) that was part of the area that wouldn’t render. But I also discovered it wouldn’t even show up in the Viewer when I double-clicked it. I tried simply deleting it from the browser and re-importing, but that didn’t help. Reconnecting didn’t work. It still would show up as “nothing” when I viewed the timeline. Finally had to re-edit the piece into the timeline. This has forced me to rebuild the motion effects I had on it, but at least it’s working.
Thanks for the help.
Ron
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Yes, me too. Just seems this ought to be a separate cache file that
is written to, if it isn’t…but hey, what do I know…Ron
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Also, try to make sure that your title positions (and I think sizes as well) are set at even increments. Especially avoid vertical placement that has stuff like 21.27
Ron
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It was an external Maxtor firewire job. It is new and is the first thing on the chain of a couple of drives. There is a chance that this is related to whether it’s set for RAID 0 or RAID 1 – something I have yet to check.
Ron
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This is apparently a drive-related issue. Someone had hung a new Maxtor drive on the system and it, for whatever reason, was unable to capture correctly. In the meantime I’ve gone back to my HUGE raid and all is well.
Thanks for the ideas…
Ron
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