File I/O error.

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File I/O error.

I keep getting this "File I/O error."everytime I try to render something in FCP. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've thrown away files in the render manager and it seem to work for a short amount of time and then it happens again. Help!

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM 2x2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Posted on Mar 25, 2009 2:58 PM

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Answer 1

gogiangigo

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Mar 25, 2009 3:34 PM in response to jkwon da chef

Go to main menu>tools>Render Manager.
Trash all your renders and re-render.

G.

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2009 3:37 PM in response to gogiangigo

Tried that and it works for a limited time and then it pops up again.

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Answer 3

Philpott

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May 17, 2009 7:16 PM in response to jkwon da chef

What an irritating message. I get it sometimes too, it tells me NOTHING. It doesn't identify an offending file, it gives me nothing to work with, I might as well be using Windows.

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Answer 4

May 18, 2009 10:00 AM in response to jkwon da chef

What format are your clips? what format is your sequence? Are your drives formatted macosextended?
Are you using any cmyk graphics? If so, replace with rgb.

Also, run diskutility:repair and diskwarrior (if you have it) on drives.

Message was edited by: Michael Grenadier

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Answer 5

Philpott

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May 18, 2009 11:10 AM in response to Philpott

BTW with my most recent error, in a sequence 18 mins long, I split up the clips into three different new sequences and tried exporting each. The first two were fine, while the third gave me the same error. So I trashed the original media and reimported it from my camera. That fixed it (I guess there was a corrupted clip in the final third).

I just wish the program could be more specific and tell me exactly which clip is causing a problem.

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