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general error - Error: out of memory

Hi.
So, i have been working on this movie using gigs and gigs of video files. and i was working on the timeline in final cut pro (arranging movie files for transitions), and i right clicked one of the movie files to edit it in Quicktime (in order to shorten it up, etc.)... and upon saving the file in quicktime and exiting quicktime, i came back to final cut pro, and the timeline disappeared.

i doubleclicked on the Sequence1 file in the Browser which should open the timeline, but it doesn't. instead, i get two popups...

1. general error!
2. Error: out of memory

i cannot open my project's timeline nor can i open the canvas. and i checked my available memory and it is reading 1.76 gigs free. so i think something else is going on here.

has anybody had this type of occurance? if so, how to remedy? please. 🙂

thanx for your help.

Posted on Nov 15, 2005 11:51 AM

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Nov 15, 2005 12:07 PM in response to fallalive.com

First off, welcome to the forum.

Second, it helps to know what you're working on (Mac, OS, FCP version, HD space, RAM, etc) so set that up in the forum profile for yourself. It makes it much easier for us to answer your questions and offer suggestions.

Now with all that out of the way, an out of memory error usually means one of two things;
- low RAM
- not enough free space on your system drive and/or your capture-scratch drive

How much RAM and how much free space are on each drive? If any have less than 10% free space, it's time to do some housecleaning.

-DH

Nov 15, 2005 12:33 PM in response to fallalive.com

Control click your sequence in your browser and make the sequence offline. DO NOT delete the files from the disk or move them to the trash. Then try opening your sequence. If that works reconnect your sequence clip by clip or if there are a lot of clips select a group of clips and reconnect them. Eventually you will find your problem clip. I 've gotten this before from graphics as well. Also- do you have any nested sequences? Sometimes those have given me this error before as well.

Nov 15, 2005 1:35 PM in response to fallalive.com

No prob fall. I've been getting this error a lot lately. Could you please post exactly what was causing the problem for future reference? Was it a bad graphic or was it caused by a nest? For me, I've been having the problem occur with nests. What has been fixing it (at least I think it is) is to render within my nest.Whatever it is was please post it back so if some poor soul has the same problem in the future you may be able to help them.

Nov 17, 2005 7:24 AM in response to Maxx Power

I am going to take a try at explaining what it is i did before i encountered this error. . . . .. . . ..

I had a quicktime movie that i added some audio to in final cut pro. i then exported the final cut pro stage as another quicktime using h.264 compression and raw audio.

i then imported that new .mov file into final cut pro, to be part of a larger project.

i needed to edit that .mov file. so i found the file in finder and opened the file in quicktime. after i finished editing the file in quicktime, i saved the file. when i went back into final cut pro, the file was offline.

i tried reconnecting the file, and that is when my timeline disappeared.

i am still unsure as to why editing an exported final cut pro .mov file in quicktime, and then bringing it back into final cut pro causes bad things to happen...

hope i made sense. going back a few days in my thoughts is sometiimes difficult...especially since i am new to final cut pro.

thanx. 🙂

Nov 17, 2005 10:18 AM in response to fallalive.com

Sometimes strange things happen when you alter a file used in a project outside of FCP. Basically you are saving over the old file. Whatever happened I'm glad you figured it out. This is OT but I am wondering why you were exporting the original footage, changing it and then reimporting it into another project. Every time you export you footage your compressing it and degrading the quality of your footage. The more times you do this the more you are docking the quality of the original footage. I'm not familiar with h264 so maybe its OK to work this way but I am wondering why you just didn't copy your original sequence into your larger project rather than export the sequence and bring it in as an .mov. By working with the sequence itself you will be working with your footage at the highest quality. Do you smell what I'm cookin here?

Mar 15, 2006 12:23 AM in response to fallalive.com

I think the problem is twofold. 1) when you export the file as H.264 it's highly compressed. When you reimport into FCP it's having to uncompress it and convert it to a DV file. 2) When you edit in QT, it's not the same file anymore and its attributes are changed. then you try to relink it to your original clip, it's not the same, so boom, there's too many things for it to do at once: uncompress and try to fit new attributes.

When you export the file, do it as a full size QT file, not as an MP4 (H.264).

general error - Error: out of memory

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