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Host Video Rendering Error -50

Dear Users of Compressor 4.1,

I have been having this error now for the last few days, and have read many forum entries on the topic, but now I turn to you for help.

The Problem

I get the error "Host Video Rendering Error -50" when compressing hour-long FCPX projects. I am "sending to compressor" from FCPX and compressing into h264. The media is simply very long h264 video files and AAC audio - there are not lots of little clips which seem to have been giving this error to other folks.

I have not been able to export a single file successfully since upgrading to the latest version of compressor last night (4.1.1 - before that it was working fine with 4.1.0).

I have "trashed my preferences" using Preference Manager; I have been able to successfully export files immediately as a Master File (although the quality looks terrible - I was going to write another post about that!), and to be honest I am nearly at my wits end, because I am already over deadline!

Any ideas are most appreciated.

Thank you.

Jason.

Mid 2010 Mac Pro

2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

32 GB Ram

OS X 10.9.1

Any other information you need please just ask.

Compressor, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 19, 2014 3:47 AM

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jaserius Author

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Feb 24, 2014 1:36 AM in response to Warwick Teale

Dear Warwick,

Thanks for your continued support.

Unfortunately, I never got to the bottom of understanding exactly what caused my error.

However, I did work out that originally I had not been correctly deleting my project render files. One actually has to have the yellow highlight line around the project in the browser to be able to delete the files.

There will still a few files that had this error though once I did do this correctly. These files I managed to export by relinking the media.

I hope this helps other people who have the same problem.

Thank you for all your help.

Best regards,

Jason.

Mar 6, 2014 6:04 AM in response to jaserius

Hi Jason, just perusing these forums for something. Looks like your issue has gone into hiding. Suggest it might be worth closing.

fwiw

warwick

jaserius Author

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Mar 6, 2014 9:49 AM in response to Warwick Teale

Sorry Warwick, I didnt realise I needed to close it. How exactly do I do that?

UNfortunately my last contribution was the best I was ever able to come up with on this issue. I finished the job I was working on and have not looked at it since... It was a bit hit and miss, but it was completed.

Please let me know what else I can write.

Thanks for all your help.

Jason.

Mar 6, 2014 9:49 PM in response to jaserius

Hi Jason, there's certainly no need to close it (because there's not a status for that).. I shoud have said mark it as SOLVED (when it isn't really solved). 😝

It's up to you.

Unless it gets archived, you and others may always add to it. Usually this information is a very good resource.

Cheers mate 😉

Host Video Rendering Error -50