[Tom Von doom]

BTW, for your edification, this show is pretty simple. No mixed formats, no panning or zooming huge graphics. The footage did originate as HDV, however, which has been problematic, but I don’t think is the core issue here. IMHO.

[Tom Von doom]

I appreciate your comments, guys. No, I’m not saving to my boot drive. I have a fibreshare setup with plenty of space. I tried Dan’s suggestion, and so far, so good. I have my sequence in a new project, and I’m re-rendering it all minty-fresh. I may have to do it in pieces, but I’ll see how far I can get this way. Hopefully, soon I can have a textless master to play with. Thanks for your help.

Does anyone know what the deal is with the memory allocation thing? I don’t know if the utility is misreading it or if FCP is not interacting with the OS properly or what. I can’t help thinking this is related to the problems we’re having. I’d just love to know….

[Tom Von doom]

I did go back to an autosaved sequence. I suppose if I took the media offline, I might be able to make shorter sequences and relink later. I’m going to try and xml the sequence and open it in a new project. With the media offline, I mean. it wouldn’t do it with it online. With all the people having these problems on here I can’t believe that there’s no fix for this. It could be me and my system, but I think it’s something to do with Apple. This is my first major project in HD using FCP. Give me back my Avid!

[Tom Von doom]

The program is in one sequence. I would be happy to break it down to segments. In fact, that’s what I’ve been trying, but it crashes any time I make a change. Or try to save. The show did play out before, but not anymore. What’s the deal with the memory registering off the scale? It seems like a FCP bug or something. I can see why it thinks it’s out of memory if it’s looking for TBs of it. I’ve tried trashing prefs, zapping pram, deleting renders. Not sure what else to try…

[Tom Von doom]

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 12 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version: 1.7f10

FCP 6.02, Kona 3

[Tom Von doom]

Thanks, I’ll try that.