[Sai Kelly]

Ok this sounds good. Thank you to all involved here. I got the file open again but just from retrying after i repaired the permissions on the system drive.

Michael Gissing : Can you walk me through the MM selection settings please?

File -> Media Manager = window opens.

Media:
RECOMPRESS?
Include render files
Recompress media using : APPLE PRORES 422 1920X1080 25p 48kHz

Include master clips outside selection :
Delete unused media from duplicated items :
Use handles :
Include affiliate clips outside collection :

Base media file names on : EXISTING FILE NAMES

Project :
Duplicate selected items and place into a new project :
include nonactive multiclip angles :

Media Destination:
External HD

i don’t see where to add reel names….oh do you mean all the clips i use need the Reel Names added to each one? like all the clips on the HD are in 9 separate folders so i need to go into each folder and rename clips MVI_4672 to MVI_4711; Reel1MVI_4672 to Reel1MVI_4711, going through all 12hours of clips until all 9 folders worth of clips are renamed after their folders?…..um,yeah, this may cause a stroke….

Warm regards,

Sai

[Sai Kelly]

–Update–

Project file wont even open now! Unbelievably sick of this.

Repairing all drive permissions as we speak.

Any other thoughts?

S

[Sai Kelly]

–Update–

I can’t even open the project file now, it keeps crashing. Any thoughts?

S

[Sai Kelly]

Hi Alex, thanks for responding so quickly, very helpful also!

No i haven’t tried that yet will give it a go. Someone also suggested transcoding in MM so ill try that with the original H264 Seq first.

1TB is fine if you have the space mate, but that’s the issue exactly. This was the hand i was dealt, im just trying to repair it.

Thanks so much for the help, ill get to that immediately. Sorry for the shortness, deadline is tonight.

Warm regards,

S

[Sai Kelly]

Cheers Raf will give that a go.

Sai

[Sai Kelly]

So there i was, still editing a 23:30 from 12:00 this afternoon, fully intending on continuing until the birds sing and i decide to hit RENDER to survey some recently clipped clips. BAM. “Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card.” and then shortly following “fxscript error : unknown error”. How helpful.

(Would it be too much to ask for a computer to say, “Error. Fix it with the following…”)

Now before i melted down the mouse to use as a sharp projectile-able device to insert between my eyes, or reached for a trusty flat blade, i did a little error search and found a few suggestions. Also that this error comes up for a few different reasons. I realise this post is old but i found it and it was relevant to me in the distant future of 2012. So, as im sure all involved up until now have either solved the issue, died waiting for another more helpful answer or just moved on with their lives, this post is aimed at any future ‘me-type’ people who need this solution.

‘Bucky420’ on MAC-FORUMS spurned the brain juices on with his helpful but at first illusive comment, “It’s a framerate problem.” After shouting obscenities at the screen, i got to thinking; what was the last thing i did before this error started…? I imported a previously exported company sting into the project and, deciding to go for full quality instead, dropped it’s source Template into the timeline from the Master Templates folder in Effects…

I found that this error was caused by placing 29.92fps Motion template into a timeline in FCP which was 25fps. Why it was 29.97fps are for reasons known only to itself, so i opened the template in Motion, copied the layers into a new project (set at 25fps) saved the new template with the name ‘Saiko Sting 25fps’ jumped back into FCP and then just dragged the new one over the old one in the timeline…Bingo. Rendering was re-enabled. All joy. No poo. My overnight editing session can resume.

Good luck folks, Keep fighting the good fight.

Saimurai