Final Cut Pro 5 doesn´t export complete movies.

Hello everybody, Final Cut Pro 5 doesn´t export completely the movie I´m editing, exporting it with quick time. Don´t know why this is happening but it does it with every sequence I make, i´ve also try to export to compressor but it pop a message telling me final cut is too busy and without reason final cut crashes.

Please Help me, greetings from Mexico

Message was edited by: Kalfopulos

Black MacBook (Intel C2D), Mac OS X (10.4.10), iMac G4 Flat Panel / Mac OS X (10.3.9) / Bluetooth MightyMouse / iPod Nano 4 Gb

Posted on Aug 1, 2007 6:03 AM

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Aug 1, 2007 6:22 AM in response to Kalfopulos

From you profile it appears you have "small" Macs, a MacBook and an iMac.
It is probably too little memory or too slow/small a disk drive causing your problems. Unlike Windows, when you run out of resources and it blows up, the Mac OS seems to just keep going but avoids allowing certain tasks to work--often without reporting an error. THis gives you the illusion that things are working but there are no results.

So if you don't have at least 2GB of RAM in your Mac's or you're nearly out of disk space, that is most likely your problem.

Aug 1, 2007 6:51 AM in response to Bob Cozzi

Thanks Bob, I´ve already think about RAM . I´m running final cut on my macbook, it have 1 gb in RAM but it doesn´t make sense to me because the render goes pretty fast even if i have multiple tracks on my sequence . I´m not an expert on final cut, but as far as I know render is a heavier process, more than exporting, am I wrong?? At first I thoght it would be a problem with final cut preferences, but what your leave me a serious doubt. Thanks for your answer .

Aug 2, 2007 5:20 AM in response to Kalfopulos

Rendering depends on the captured material. If the material is captured in the format of the sequence, then there's little rendering going on. If the output is the same or substantially similar to the captured format, rendering times will be lower.

On an Intel-base Core 2 Mac, DV rendering is typically pretty quick. Moving to HDV its a bit longer--sometimes a lot longer in fact.

Also, do a google search on FCP Rescue and download and run that tool (its freeware). It can clean up your Final Cut files and give you a fresh start if anything is corrupted. But be warned! It will destroy any preferences or user settings you've already modified.

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