What is quicktime error -50?

I have been editing in FCPX on both my Macbook Pro and my iMac. I have been having problems with both when exporting video. At the end it fails and I get an error message. It reads "Quicktime Error: -50". Does anyone else know what this is?

It has happened when exporting both in FCPX, or in compressor, or the share monitor. It does not happen when I'm simply exporting the media, but it almost always happens when I export as any different format. It particularly likes to do this when I "share" to Vimeo.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 4GB RAM, FCPX

Posted on Sep 2, 2012 12:08 AM

31 replies

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 18, 2014 4:39 PM in response to raccoonsofnewyork

Most of the time YouTube failure is because the file gets caught in YT's horrendous traffic jam and doesn't get uploaded. You're always better off making a file in the spec you want and uploading using YouTube's uploader.

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What is quicktime error -50?

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