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Maximum number of layers or effects has been exceeded

Hello:


I was wondering if anyone else has ever encountered this in Final Cut.


Let me start by saying I have a brand new Mac Studio (2 weeks old-128 GB memory and 1TB storage I still have over 850 GB storage) running all the latest updates. I reinstalled Final Cut and Motion so I am running "new" versions of both. It has working great so far. In regard to the problem itself, I have both deleted the preferences and restarted the computer.


Recently I have been running into this error message. I do not have that many layers (10 total). Effects I can't be sure of because I am running (around 6) plug in titles from motionvfx. It resolves itself...until I make edits or changes to one of the layers. Then this error flashes up again. I click out of the timeline and back in again and I can work. So, it's not exactly stopping me from working. But it is very annoying, it's slowing me down and I've never seen this before. It should also be noted that even after fully rendering playback is choppy, slow and the message has the tendency to pop up then as well.


Below is a screenshot of my timeline...this shows all the layers in the timeline. I also included a screenshot of the error message. Please forgive me if I have not included everything you need to see. Just tell me and I will provide it for you. Thank you in advance for any light you can shed on this problem.


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Posted on Aug 11, 2024 7:59 PM

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Maximum number of layers or effects has been exceeded

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