FCPX - H.264 360VR 5670x5670 not exporting

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FCPX - H.264 360VR 5670x5670 not exporting

I have been trying to export 360 VR content shoot on 8K on an Insta360-TITAN camera, I am using a MacBookPro M1 Max with all high-end specs, and it should work. Still, I have done all things I can think of why this is not working, I have even hidden Plugins on the system, the weird thing is that the last project I edited worked like a charm, and is the one I am currently editing that is not exporting, on ProRes 8K it does work, in H.264 4096X4096 it does work, the problem is on 5670x5670, the real problem is that not a lot of people in the world are shooting above 8K like me, so to know for sure if this is a bug on FCPX is crazy right?

But it is a problem because it is the only export way to upload it to YT in 8K quality and is a needed option.

MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Apr 27, 2023 10:28 AM

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terryb

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Apr 27, 2023 3:25 PM in response to Fitopardo

You could try the divide and conquer method to determine if there's a corrupt clip. Export the first half and if it succeeds, export the second half. If the second half fails, divide that in half and export the first half of that, then the second half. Keep dividing until you can narrow it down. It's possible there's more than one corrupt piece of media.

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Fitopardo Author

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Apr 27, 2023 4:29 PM in response to terryb

Yes that was IT, it was nothing to do with what APPS I choose to have in my computer, 3 clips are corrupted and I just find them thanks!

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Answer 3

Apr 27, 2023 10:42 AM in response to Fitopardo

How much free space on the system drive, and on the drive you are exporting to?

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

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Apr 27, 2023 11:26 AM in response to Fitopardo

More than one antivirus app - This computer has multiple antivirus apps installed.

You are shooting yourself in the proverbial both feet by having not just one but more than one third party antivirus - the correct number is zero. And cleanmymac alone has earned the nickname brickmymac…

To make matters worse, you also have Chrome and its evil keystone daemons and agents… see https://chromeisbad.com for an explanation of what they do and how to uninstall them.

After that, you will also need to delete FCP and download a fresh copy from the App Store.

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Apr 27, 2023 10:31 AM in response to Fitopardo

What exactly is not working? Are you getting any error message? What, exactly?

What are your project settings, and your export settings?

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 27, 2023 12:39 PM in response to Fitopardo

The application is crashing, or it’s putting up an error message. If it’s crashing the preferences need to be reset each time. If it’s an error message the problem is likely to be in processing the media. Fires it always fails at about the same point?

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 27, 2023 11:05 AM in response to Fitopardo

I honestly don’t understand exactly what you’re doing here. You can only export at project sizes. Are your copying/pasting to new projects, or are you sending to Compressor or using Compressor presets?

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 27, 2023 10:43 AM in response to Fitopardo

In addition to what Luis said you might want to check the media. I don’t have a problem exporting a project of your specifications.

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Fitopardo Author

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Apr 27, 2023 10:51 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I know it should work, I have been able to export on these specs in the past, but just this one I cant, and what I did differently, is that in the past I always edit from 8K down I started the editing process on 8K and then I exported on 6K and 4K, but this time I edited on 4K and then just connected the clips and tried to export on 6K and no luck, but weirdly on 8K works and in Prores works, but I even tried to export on 6K the 8K prores clip and when doing that the same crash export happens, now I am clueless why is keep happening.

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Fitopardo Author

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Apr 27, 2023 11:49 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Well, I have been told about Chrome, but I need a lot of things out of Google, I did install 2 anti viruses last month because I got hacked without them at a Hotel I stayed at (I got panicked because this is new), the thing is I was able to export on that setting on last clip (with all these bad things on my computer) this should not be a factor, I will pay attention and clean a bit, but I am not sure is because of those apps.

I can do that by downloading a clean copy of FCP I will do that now.

Thanks, lets try

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Fitopardo Author

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Apr 27, 2023 1:31 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I think is what you are saying Is the same error message, and fails at about the same area, I deleted the area crashing and I exported again and it did it again in another clip but close to the same time as the last crashing area,

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terryb

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Apr 27, 2023 8:14 PM in response to Fitopardo

Great! Glad you found the bad clips and that's all it was.

Consider yourself very lucky that CleanMyMac and Chrome haven't borked your system. There are many, many discussions here about them causing serious problems.

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Fitopardo Author

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Apr 27, 2023 8:24 PM in response to terryb

Finally, wasn't that I change the clips I filled with blanks the spaces and it exported well, but when I changed the clips with other footage and filled in the blanks, the problem is back but is exactly on the 3 points, now I am clueless what causing it, I will delete chrome for now, just to make sure I did that to clean my mac before reinstalling FCPX

But the problem still is happening I cant export the footage in 5670x5670 on H.264 just over and under

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