[Will Cabal]

Hey Rafael,

Exporting it in portions seems to have done the trick, though I am still bummed that it cant export it as a whole. Thanks so much for the advice.

[Will Cabal]

Hey Rafael,

I don’t have diskwarrior, but if you suggest I look into it, then I will.

I tried rendering the 1 hour long HD project again, but to no avail. I trashed my preferences, changed to a different video setting, closed additional sequences, and restarted the computer. When I rendered (just through a normal quicktime export), the render took around 7 hours, and I saw a quicktime file being created. Then, after it reached 99%, it said ERROR: OUT OF MEMORY, and the file completely disappeared! The hard drive I was saving it to had over 200 gigs of space, and yesterday I tried saving it to a hard drive that had over 90 gigs of space, so I doubt it’s a hard drive issue.
I do have an idea though… when my OS crashed a few weeks ago, the MAC Genius’ found that one of my RAM sticks was faulty (I have 10 gigs of RAM in my computer; 4 two gig sticks, and 2 one gig sticks. The faulty RAM stick was one of the 1 gig sticks). Currently, my computer has all the RAM inside (except the malfunctioning one gig stick), and since the working one gig stick needs to have the other paired with it, my computer is reading 8 gigs of ram instead of 9. I just got the RAM stick in from Apple and will put it back into the computer when I return on Sunday (I’m out of town until then).

Do you think this missing RAM pair could have cause the ERROR messages though? If I were to put the other pair back in, would the messages stop?

Another idea is that I should probably render the video in sections, rather than as an hour long project. Does this sound like a good, alternate plan?

[Will Cabal]

Hey Rafael,

I don’t have diskwarrior, but if you suggest I look into it, then I will.

I tried rendering the 1 hour long HD project again, but to no avail. I trashed my preferences, changed to a different video setting, closed additional sequences, and restarted the computer. When I rendered (just through a normal quicktime export), the render took around 7 hours, and I saw a quicktime file being created. Then, after it reached 99%, it said ERROR: OUT OF MEMORY, and the file completely disappeared! The hard drive I was saving it to had over 200 gigs of space, and yesterday I tried saving it to a hard drive that had over 90 gigs of space, so I doubt it’s a hard drive issue.
I do have an idea though… when my OS crashed a few weeks ago, the MAC Genius’ found that one of my RAM sticks was faulty (I have 10 gigs of RAM in my computer; 4 two gig sticks, and 2 one gig sticks. The faulty RAM stick was one of the 1 gig sticks). Currently, my computer has all the RAM inside (except the malfunctioning one gig stick), and since the working one gig stick needs to have the other paired with it, my computer is reading 8 gigs of ram instead of 9. I just got the RAM stick in from Apple and will put it back into the computer when I return on Sunday (I’m out of town until then).

Do you think this missing RAM pair could have cause the ERROR messages though? If I were to put the other pair back in, would the messages stop?

Another idea is that I should probably render the video in sections, rather than as an hour long project. Does this sound like a good, alternate plan?

[Will Cabal]

I am not sure if the graphics card is even a problem, so I guess we can forget about it being a factor for now. All I know is that I had to reinstall FCP (and plug-ins) after a complete system install last week. Though everything is back up to date, every time I try to completely render and export a 1 hour HD project (that I had started on before the computer was erased), I keep getting various messages such as the “hardware cannot render…” and “Error: Out of Memory” messages.

I have no idea why this is happening.

[Will Cabal]

What does GPU mean?