Out of Memory Error and Crashing while rendering FCP

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Out of Memory Error and Crashing while rendering FCP

Hey Gang!

So, I am kind of at my wits end with this one.. I am working on a photo montage (all RGB JPGs scaled down to a reasonable res). The project consists of Motion4 projects from MotionVFX.com, animated stills in the timeline, and FXFactory LightSlice and CoverFlow photo montage elements. I am working in ProRes LT 23.98. I have tested ram overnight with TechToolPro6, Memtest, and AHT and everything checks out fine. To ensure there were no software issues, I re-installed the OS after zeroing out the system drive. Reinstalled everything, ran updates, made sure I have the latest drivers and firmware etc.
Still getting Out of Memory! errors when rendering as well as random crashing while previewing.

Between the Radeon 5870, 14gb ram, I figured this system would be flying... There's gotta be something I'm missing.. Thoughts?

MacPro 8 Core 2.8 14GB Ram ATI Rad 5780 - Blackmagic Intesity Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), FCS 3 (Latest Updates)

Posted on Mar 31, 2011 2:43 PM

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Nddirector Author

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Mar 31, 2011 3:00 PM in response to Nddirector

Perhaps I should just export the projects to ProRes LT out of Motion and use the movie files in FCP?

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Nick Holmes

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Mar 31, 2011 3:50 PM in response to Nddirector

animated stills in the timeline...

Tell us more about these stills. What color mode do they use? Hopefully not CMYK? Needs to be RGB.
Another possibility is one or more corrupted render files.

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Nddirector Author

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Mar 31, 2011 4:03 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Trashed all previous render files to re-render the whole timeline. Got everything to render in smaller chunks, but trying to render the entire timeline is where the issues occur. Also, exported all Motion project files to the FCP timeline ProRes422. NOTE- I did find a couple B&W pics that were "Grayscale" and converted those to RGB, but still have the same problem. Double checked and there are NO CMYK photos.

There are 14GB of tested good ram in this machine, and the high end radeon 5780, that should be a workhorse..

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Nick Holmes

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Mar 31, 2011 4:13 PM in response to Nddirector

There are 14GB of tested good ram in this machine, and the high end radeon 5780, that should be a workhorse..

Sure. You are looking in the wrong place though. The "out of memory" error is always caused by problematic media or a busted project file.

Check out FCS Maintenance Pack: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/
Useful tools in there like Corrupt Clip Finder, Project Repair etc

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Nddirector Author

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Apr 2, 2011 7:06 PM in response to Nick Holmes

So here it is.. I narrowed the out of memory and crashing issues to FXFactory plugins having some sort of conflict with my Blackmagic Intensity Pro Card. If I Command F12, and turn off the broadcast monitor output, everything renders fast and fine. Totally bizarre, because I have never had any other issues with the BM card. The FX plugins are new to my system and that seems to be where the issues are coming from.

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BenB

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Apr 3, 2011 7:13 AM in response to Nddirector

Verify this with BlackMagic, be sure you have the latest drivers for that card.

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