OUT OF RENDER DISK SPACE

Sabrina,

When you run out of disk space, you only have two options: free up space on the existing drive(s), or add another drive.

-DH

rendering disk space is disk space. Describe your configuration and how much available disk space there is on each drive. Allowing ANY drive to get much more than 90% full is dangerous. System efficiency will decline and drive corruption and loss of data become real possibilities. Allowing your startup drive to get full is a recipe for disaster.

> there's nothing in the render manager except the project I'm

working on. There's nothing to free up.

WRONG!
I'll bet there's loads of old render files you can junk with the render manager.

Ditching render files is harmless - it won't hurt your project as you can always render again.

Ditch the lot and re-render your project if it needs it. Hopefully this will help your (dire space problem but the other posters are right :

How much Hard Drive free space do you have?
(If it’s less than 10 to 15% on any HD, your system will work slowly).
Are your Media (capture) files on your System Drive?
(If they are, your system will work slowly and probably crash).

Andy

Quad 8GB. 250+500 HDs. G-Raid 1TB. NORTON. FCP 5.1.1. Shake 4.1. Sony HVR Z1E Mac OS X (10.4.7)
"I've taught you all I know, and still you know nothing".

Check your render folder. Are there a bunch of old renders from other projects? Trash them if there are. You can always render again if you need to. And you can do this in the Finder. You don't have to do this with the render manager.

Ditch the RENDER files - they're perfectly HARMLESS - they are temporary files that allow you to play your movie and watch it (in real time). Your sequence will be unaffected once you've rendered where needed.

If you ditch your render files, you will clear out loads of garbage and make things a lot easier for FCP.

But you must have more space on your System Drive - you won't be able to burn a DVD with the space you have now.

Go out and buy a good External (firewire) Hard Drive - twice as big as you think you need - and save yourself some impending grief.

You can drag all your Media (capture) files to it, then reconnect when FCP prompts you to. All you have to do is show FCP where you dragged the files to - it will do the rest.

Your sequence will show offline files but don't panic, just reconnect.

I always keep a second HD with my media files as a backup.

Andy

Quad 8GB. 250+500 HDs. G-Raid 1TB. NORTON. FCP 5.1.1. Shake 4.1. Sony HVR Z1E Mac OS X (10.4.7)
"I've taught you all I know, and still you know nothing".

Files in the autosave vault will most likely be very small (relative to what you'll need for rendering or capturing footage). I wouldn't bother. Like the others said, go grab a good firewire drive for 200 bucks. That's your best solution. You will always need more space - I guarantee it.

Every few weeks or so I burn all of my autosaves onto a cd and then trash them.

If you're talking about copying the files onto the new firewire or new G5, that should not be a problem. I prefer to copy the files at the finder level rather than through final Cut - it seems whenever I do it through final cut, it slightly alters the file names and then it is a pain to reconnect media .