About 7 times a day I have to reboot my FCP cos it gives me a "out of memory" error when I try and render , as soon as i reboot FCP7 it's good to go again??? anyone have this too?
Nice to have 16G of RAM but most ot it isn't helping you in FCP. The usual cause of the problem is large still images in a sequence, especially if they aren't RGB 8-bit. If so you might want to up the still memory allocation.
Do you have a lot of stills in the sequence? Are they all rendered? FWIW, unrendered stills are a huge ram hog: fcp is creating virtual media with them until you render.
This out of memory problem is still a issue for me it is happening every 20mins whenever I try to render !!! all it says is "out of memory" with the "!" icon ....
any ideas please ?? is it the memory in the machine it self???
How much free space on each of them - especially Start-up Mac OS HD ?
• Start-up HD - minimum 25Gb free space for SD-video and 5-6 times more for HD to be
very on the safe side.
How are they formatted ? - ALL MUST BE - Mac OS Extended - Nothing else works with VIDEO.
Bengt my mac disk has lots of space on it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with 466,27 GB space left
my hard disks there are 3x 3TB Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and each one has 1 TB of space left on each , it is a fairly new system and it never gave me this error before now it seems to be crashing alot more and given me this out of memory message almost everytime I render?? what has changed for me ... ps I am working in apple pro res (hq) and this drives are not raided together but like i said it has not been a problem before ....
Try to render selected portions of the timeline, one after another.
I had the same problem with FCP 6. Since the update to 703 and 10.6.4 everything is OK.
this happens even with shorter clips and then I have to quit out of FCP and then go back in , its almost as if the FCP needs rebooting (as if the memory is struggling) before it works and on so occasions it wont command-Q out I have to quit from the menu...
I have been getting this one a lot lately. the only recommendation I can make (which worked for me) is to actually create a new sequence and paste the edit into it. For some reason in 10.6.x sequences can get corrupted which somehow screws up the render files. Even deleting render files will do you no good unless you create a new sequence. Hope this helps. I also hope that Apple addresses this problem soon. It's a real PITA.
I saw this got a bump up recently. I've dealt with this as well over the years.
It was "kind of" suggested earlier in the post to delete still shots out of the sequence - as a starting point to try and at least make it render.
I would also submit - if you have multiple kinds of clips (still shots, different video - whatever) - try removing every other kind of clip except for the most used format for one clip - and start there. Then add in the extra stuff one at a time to see if you can find something that trips it up.
For example - a majority of DV clips, combined with a little 422 footage, or resized HD footage, some Jpegs and PNGs - just remove everything except the DV clips - and then start adding them back in to see what causes the problem.