shelbysmith
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Q: rendering 300 plus photos on timeline

I'm adding 300 plus photos at the end of my vacation video and I'm having trouble getting them to render.  I imported them into the browser,  selected all, dragged them over to "insert with transitions" and put them in the timeline.  Trouble is, when I try to render, using all of the options, I get a "general error" after 10 minutes or so.   I did get about 15% to render but I'm out of ideas.  Can anyone help.  Thanks.

Posted on Aug 10, 2016 6:13 PM

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Thanks. I started too delete the stills that wouldn't render and try your suggestion but first I went to the ones at the tail end and tried to render a few.  IT WORKED!  I rendered about 50 until I got the "general error" but when I skipped around, it worked again for a while.  Finally got them all rendered by selecting 5 or 6 at a time and going to sequence> render only>needs render .  Your idea would have worked but somehow I got it to work. 

Another question.  With my video and the slide show, I'm going to have maybe 1:10 of time on the timeline.  How will this affect the quality when I burn it to IDVD?  Do I need to keep it under a minute?  Thanks again.

Posted on Aug 13, 2016 6:32 PM

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  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Aug 11, 2016 3:52 AM in response to shelbysmith
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    Aug 11, 2016 3:52 AM in response to shelbysmith

    Sounds like you are running low on system resources.

    Do you know the Project Properties?

    How big are the stills?

    When the stills are lots larger than the Project it may be choking your system.

     

    Try matching the stills to the Project size would be my suggestion.

     

    Al

  • by shelbysmith,

    shelbysmith shelbysmith Aug 11, 2016 5:36 PM in response to Alchroma
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    Aug 11, 2016 5:36 PM in response to Alchroma

    The stills are 4mb each.  I haven't had this problem on other videos with this many.  What should the project properties be set to?  Is this something I can adjust?   Just now, I started selecting 5, then 10, then 50 stills at a time and going to render selection>needs render and it worked through about half of the stills, then I started getting a "general error" even with as few as 5.  Help.  Thanks.

  • by David Harbsmeier,Helpful

    David Harbsmeier David Harbsmeier Aug 17, 2016 2:47 PM in response to shelbysmith
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    Aug 17, 2016 2:47 PM in response to shelbysmith

    The most common cause of 'general error' with still images in FCE is images that are larger than 4000 pixels (either dimension) or images that are in CMYK, Bitmap or Greyscale color mode.

     

    If all images are in RGB color mode and are smaller than 4000 pixels, try creating a new Sequence and place only 75 to 100 photos in it.  Export as a self-contained movie, then create another new Sequence for the next 100 photos.  Repeat until you have an exported movie for each batch of photos, then import all of the self-contained movies and edit them together.

     

    -DH

  • by shelbysmith,Solvedanswer

    shelbysmith shelbysmith Aug 13, 2016 6:32 PM in response to David Harbsmeier
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    Aug 13, 2016 6:32 PM in response to David Harbsmeier

    Thanks. I started too delete the stills that wouldn't render and try your suggestion but first I went to the ones at the tail end and tried to render a few.  IT WORKED!  I rendered about 50 until I got the "general error" but when I skipped around, it worked again for a while.  Finally got them all rendered by selecting 5 or 6 at a time and going to sequence> render only>needs render .  Your idea would have worked but somehow I got it to work. 

    Another question.  With my video and the slide show, I'm going to have maybe 1:10 of time on the timeline.  How will this affect the quality when I burn it to IDVD?  Do I need to keep it under a minute?  Thanks again.

  • by Alchroma,Helpful

    Alchroma Alchroma Aug 17, 2016 2:48 PM in response to shelbysmith
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    Aug 17, 2016 2:48 PM in response to shelbysmith

    With my video and the slide show, I'm going to have maybe 1:10 of time on the timeline.  How will this affect the quality when I burn it to IDVD?  Do I need to keep it under a minute?

     

    No.

    iDVD will absorb around 2 hours of FCX timeline on a single sided one layer disc.

     

    Al