Error - Out of Disk Space

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Error - Out of Disk Space

Hi
I'm exporting an FCP file using Apple Conversion. Target drive has 225GB left on it. I have one last finished clip to export from FCP, which is 60min long. Based on prior exports, this clip should use approx 120GB. Somewhere near the end of the export, FCP bails out and gives me an error message saying: Error - out of disk space. The target disk has plenty of room. Is there some place else FCP could be writing to that would cause this error?
Phil

imac g5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Dec 13, 2007 3:25 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 13, 2007 3:37 PM in response to starinova

have seen this problem before, can you save it onto another drive, are you saving it to an external hard drive?
how is this drive formatted?
do you need to use quicktime conversion?
can you export as a fcp quicktime reference movie or self contained
and use compressor to convert it to the file you want?
sorry i dont have an answer but would like to know how you solved it
cheers
simon

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starinova Author

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Dec 13, 2007 3:59 PM in response to startchoppin

Hi-
To Simon. I'm exporting to a LaCie hard drive (external) which is pre-formatted for MACs, so I haven't had any issues with that. The LA Cie actually took the whole original film clip (about 280GB),but I had to break that into smaller chunks for output to dvd (it was close, but IDVD said I couldn't put it on a dual layer dvd without reducing quality). So, after I trashed the original output of 320GB, I exported two 60 minute files no problem; on the third 60 minute file---that's when I got the error message.
Phil

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Answer 3

Dec 13, 2007 6:57 PM in response to starinova

How much free space is left on your boot drive? It MUST be AT LEAST 10% in order to have room for temp and swap files.

-DH

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starinova Author

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Dec 13, 2007 9:18 PM in response to David Harbsmeier

Hi DH
I'll take a look at that. I'm below 10% on the boot drive. I tried two different external drives and got the same error on anything larger than 20minutes of film. So...it makes sense. I'll let you know when I tackle it tomorrow. Thanks!
Phil

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Answer 5

Jan 18, 2008 9:51 AM in response to starinova

Same problem here, I'll try freeing up space on my internal HD and see what happens. Thanks!

-Kevin

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shushun

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Mar 3, 2008 11:29 AM in response to nothngupmysleeve

Same here.. I have more than 200GB left but it keeps saying "Out of Disk Space" when i try to capture the whole tape. Should I try to do "log & capture" ?
Is there any solution for this ?

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Answer 7

Mar 3, 2008 9:40 PM in response to starinova

Where did you set for all your renderized material to go to? Say you have your Autosave's and Render files to go to the internal drive, which you said was less than 10%, which could be causing the problem cause it's running out of space trying to render and export. Try changing your autosave and render locations to a different drive

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Answer 8

Mar 3, 2008 11:09 PM in response to starinova

Sometimes this can be caused by corrupt media files. Go to your Capture Scratch folder and see if there are any files that have a file size of 0 bytes. Delete those and capture again and see if it solves your problem.

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