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EEEK! New to FCP 6 and having trouble

leekohler

leekohler

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Dec 22, 2004
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Hey guys, I'm getting this weird error, and I can't figure out why. After rendering a sequence, I try to play it and get this weird error. I'm using a dual core PM G5 with an ATI Radeon x1900 265 Mb RAM video card and 8 gigs of RAM. I'm editing 720i video. Help! Please? ;)
 

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If you are getting that error *after* you've rendered the sequence then that means most likely that the harddrive can't keep up. Are you rendering to a drive that is dedicated to just media (good) or are you rendering to your system drive that holds your OS and applications (bad)? What format of video are you working w/specifically (you can select a clip in the timeline, hit command+9 and you'll get all the relevant info) and what type of sequence/timeline are you working in (w/the timeline active hit command+0 to get all the relevant info).


Lethal
 
LethalWolfe said:
If you are getting that error *after* you've rendered the sequence then that means most likely that the harddrive can't keep up. Are you rendering to a drive that is dedicated to just media (good) or are you rendering to your system drive that holds your OS and applications (bad)? What format of video are you working w/specifically (you can select a clip in the timeline, hit command+9 and you'll get all the relevant info) and what type of sequence/timeline are you working in (w/the timeline active hit command+0 to get all the relevant info).


Lethal
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Sounds like I need another hard drive. I've been using the one with all my apps. That's most likely the problem. Thanks lethal.
 
yea you cannot use your system drive as your scratch disk. you need an internal SATA drive or an external FW800 drive to use as your scratch disk. or else you will get that error.
 
Try boosting up your memory and cache in FCP

go to

Final Cut Pro>System Settings>Memory and Cache and boost up application.

See if that works.
 
nyzwerewolf said:
yea you cannot use your system drive as your scratch disk. you need an internal SATA drive or an external FW800 drive to use as your scratch disk. or else you will get that error.
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you could use your internal hdd as a scratch disk. It's just stupid because final cut pro makes thousands upon thousands of files and it will just fill up really fast.
 
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