Batch failed: quicktime error 0

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Batch failed: quicktime error 0

I saw another post about this topic, but no real answer.

I'm cutting a feature film shot on DVCPRO HD 1080 24pa. I've burned several DVD's throughout the course of the edit with Compressor, using the 16:9 Best quality 90 minutes setting. (the project is under 85 minutes TRT).

Last night however, the batch failed and gave me a "quicktime error 0." I don't think it's a ram problem as I have it maxed out at 2 gigs on my MBPro.

Like I mentioned, I've successfully burned countless DVD's this way, so I'm not sure what has changed.

Any thoughts or advice regarding the problem is greatly appreciated.

17" Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8), Final Cut Pro 5.1.4

Posted on Sep 12, 2007 9:21 AM

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Brian Gary

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Sep 13, 2007 1:42 AM in response to JayRD

Jay,

A lot of times that you get that error it's because there's a piece of media in the timeline that QuickTime doesn't like/know how to handle. I ran into this a lot with a documentary that had tons of stills and here and there QT would choke on one.

Try exporting a reference movie (File > Export > QuickTime Movie) from FCP and see if that 1) exports successfully and then 2) encodes properly in Compressor when used as the source media instead of the sequence directly exported from Compressor.

Often times, if you have some media corruption, the export will fail and/or rendering the timeline will fail too.

Brian Gary

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JayRD Author

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Sep 13, 2007 12:40 PM in response to Brian Gary

It did turn out to be a corrupt clip in the timeline. Any export would bomb almost 90% through the sequence, so I managed to isolate it and found the bad media.

As soon as I re-ingested the clip and reconnected the media, everything worked perfectly. It's just another reminder of how important it is to have this stuff backed up when you're shooting with the P2 cards.

Thanks for the help.

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