Render Cache - What is it?

That's the oddest error message ever. Render cache?

Anything out-of-the-ordinary about this client's setup? You mention that some sequences won't render - what about the others?

Personally, I think this is another bug in FCP's render scheme - like corrupted render files, and the issue of (rendered) nested sequences failing to update in parent sequences.

Well, here's a case of the blind leading the stupid (or is it the other way around??) but isn't the render cache the queue thingie that remembers the sequence of all the renders and what belong to what version of what sequence?

not at my edit station, but isn't render cache set with waveforms and thumbnails and all that when you set up your prefs?

Talking through my hat, but I'll bet a restart of fcp or a reboot of the system would clean it up.

Jim might be close to it. What are the file names created when you set your scratch disk? Isn't one of them Render and one Waveform?

Could be that the permissions for those drives and or folders got messed up. Would be the answer if client can save to another project... ie 'nother set of folders even maybe on another drive.

But I did find this from v1 days:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60277

and this from v4 days:
Audio and video render cache files are now managed separately. Modifying video edits and making changes to video effects that overlap audio effects no longer affects rendered audio render cache files, and vice versa.

and this again from v1 days:
Scratch disk options include:
Capture Audio and Video to Separate Files: when on, video and audio are saved separately, which allows for better performance during playback and capture. To save audio and video files separately, you must specify a different disk for each (no tincluding the system disk).
Video, Audio, Render storage: the disk or folder where video, audio, and rendered files are stored; specify more than one disk for increased storage space. The program automatically uses the specified disk with the most space available (rendering) or the next disk listed (capturing) when the current disk runs out of space.
Waveform Cache: the folder or disk for waveform cache files (graphical representations of audio signals)
Thumbnail Cache: the folder or disk for thumbnail cache files
Minimum Allowable Free Space on Scratch Disks: when disk space falls below this minimum, the program will use another specified disk


So it seems CLEAR to me that FCP manual writers don't know a cache from a file... though in MILITARY terms, a cache IS a storage area... not temporary as it were.

Check the permissions and trash the junk!

Hmmm.

Don't worry Brian... My wife calls me stupid... I think we can take it from Jim.

CaptM

Has anyone tried to search the drives for "render cache"?

Recall our collective experience that FCP's error reporting system is goofy. The error window that comes up is only FCP's best guess and it must come from a limited supply of pre-designed error box resources.

I'm guessing the error you're seeing is not directly related to the real cause but there's probably something about "rendering" that needs to be fixed. Render Manager?

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bogiesan

I think you are close Jim... I thought the render cache is the pile of renders in the undo cue which you can trash manually with the render manager. Maybe if trash these from time to time, you won't get the message...

Jerry

Should say for the record that I think Brian is far from stupid or blind. Was commenting on my own ignorance...

No it's flushed when you reopen a project file, or delete from the render manager.

Jerry