Final Cut Pro 6 - 'Out of Memory/Error Code'

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Final Cut Pro 6 - 'Out of Memory/Error Code'

Hey All,

I'm in the final stages of editing a documentary and I keep running into an 'Out of Memory' error code in Final Cut Pro 6.0 when trying to export a reference file. The finished film is 81 minutes long and contains 19 sequences. I have all 19 sequences nested in a main sequence of a seperate FCP project file, so I'm not wasting any memory on clips or additional backups of sequences. This Nested sequence is the only sequence that exists in this 'other' project file. All of the photos used are under 4k resolution and are RGB. Even the lower thirds are animation QT's with alphas. Any thoughs would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

System Specs:

Quad-Core 2GHZ MacBook Pro

4GB DDR3 Memory

MAC 10.7.2 (Lion)

FCP v6.0.6

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 3:51 PM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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Nov 17, 2011 3:55 PM in response to Matrixfan101

Might be corrupted render files. Trash them and render again.

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Matrixfan101 Author

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Nov 17, 2011 4:58 PM in response to Nick Holmes

UPDATE! I dumped all the render files and began exporting the project. It exported for about 30 minutes than came back with a 'File in/out error'

Should I try rendering the whole master sequence again, then export? Any idea where that other error is coming from?

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Nov 18, 2011 12:16 AM in response to Matrixfan101

Hi

How many hard disks are there ?

Free space on

• Start-Up (Mac OS) HD - and -

• Scratch disk HD

Yours Bengt W

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Answer 4

Nov 18, 2011 10:22 AM in response to Matrixfan101

First troubleshooting step

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491

If that doesn't solve the problem, you may have a corrupt sequence

Try creating a new sequence with the same settings and copy the contents from the problematic sequence

If that doesn't work. Mark an in and an out for the first half of the sequence and do an export. If that works, mark an in and an out for the second half and export. Keep narrowing down the sections til you find the problematic clip.

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Dec 4, 2011 2:01 PM in response to Matrixfan101

Thanks Everyone. I have trashed the render files as well as my FCP preferences multiple times. I even went as far as to reduce all my still images to under 2k and convert them all to TIFF's. I'm still getting the out of memory errors however. I recently tried exporting a self contained movie and FCP crashed at around 50%. I've tried rendering everything in the nested sequences before exporting and even renedered out each of the individual sequences, trying to track down the culprit. Finally, I found two sequences which came up with the error, I have since fixed the error in the two sequences, but when exporting the whole film, I'm still getting the out of memory error. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Dec 5, 2011 6:23 AM in response to Matrixfan101

So can't you export each individual "nest" with current settings and put them all together in a new sequence?

Did you delete your fcp preferences as I suggested? It's difficult enough troubleshooting from a distance but if you don't approach this methodically, it's near impossible.

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