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• PRINT • NEXT >> • Out of Memory Error... FCP 7... project too large? by Jonathan Dean on Oct 15, 2009 at 10:27:13 am Hi everyone Hope y'all can give me some insight on final cut pro 7 out of memory error when rendering a little problem I and a few other guys are having on a job right
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now. We are working from a FCP Server.... a very large project (in terms of amounts of footage... about 10TB) I am general error out of memory final cut pro running a MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB DDR3 And the other machine is a desktop with 10GB ram.... we are both getting memory errors when trying to open the project file (which is final cut express error out of memory over 170mb in itself) is this a case of the project having too much stuff inside it.... I would have thought that 10gb ram would let you work up to a point but never cross the line into the ''out of memory'' hole!?!? Return to posts indexReport Post •Re: Out of Memory Error... FCP 7... project too large?by Jerry Hofmann on Oct 15, 2009 at 11:36:42 amThere's more than one reason this could
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be happening but here's some thoughts: That's a really large project file. I'd brake it down a bit. Having open sequences that contain a lot of edits can bring your computer to it's knees. The more sequences you keep the worse this gets too. FCP can only address about 2.7 gigs of RAM in any event. Photoshop files that contain blank layers can cause this error message all by themselves... Bad Media files might be at fault. Render files are usually the culprits if this hasn't happened because of a Photoshop file being added to the project file... But my guts really say your real problem is the size of the project file. One thing you shouldn't do is keep copy upon copy of your sequences. Backup your project files instead. Having a lot of clips usually isn't what makes the project file so large, it's piles of sequences, and text files in them that enlarges them the most. Text generated files are actually stored in the project file itself where media is not... Jerry Return to posts indexReport Post•Re: Out of Memory Error... FCP 7... project too large?by Jerry Hofmann on Oct 15, 2009 at 4:02:29 pmAnother thought... Working with more than about 300-400 edits is really combersome, and takes a lot of RAM up... breaking the sequ
Gigs are full of a lot of things other than cached files, so the actual number is even a bit smaller. The only thing that you can do to prevent the error is final cut pro 7 general error actually to use less memory. Thankfully, here are a bunch of tips on how to do final cut pro not enough disk space that. 1) NEVER edit in h.264 or any other compressed format. It will add a little bit of transcoding time to the beginning, but it
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will prevent a lot of rendering and rerendering once in the edit. 2) Make your sequence settings (ideally) prores, and make sure that all of your footage is transcoded to the same flavor of prores (LT, HQ, 4444, whatever) This applies to https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1057967 framerate as well! 3) Ensure that your audio is aiff (not mp3) and at the same settings as your timeline. 4) Resize all stills to rough video sizes. 30,000 pixel wide files will bog down fcp immediately so crop or scale it down to something closer to your timeline resolution. If photoshop does this once, then fcp doesn't need to do it a million times. 5) Flat stills are easier than layered files. FCP doesn't have to deal with the precomp that psds or http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2012/07/17/how-to-fix-out-of-memory-error-in-final-cut-pro-7/ layered tiffs come in as. 6) Close unneeded tabs in the timeline and canvas. So that's basically it. Pre-process your footage to be 100% the same as your timeline and work with as few sequences open as possible. In my experience it seems that once things start erroring there is very little that helps outside of a restart. ~ by ross on July 17, 2012. Posted in FCP, glitch 5 Responses to "How to fix "Out of memory" error in Final Cut Pro 7" Thanks for the list Ross. I keep coming up against that wretched message all the time even when using ProRes… Then again I've been working on some pretty hefty HD projects recently. Have found that if you get the message, flushing some render files using Tools->Render Manager can free up enough memory to get you going again. It's only a temporary fix since the cache will fill up again but it keeps you going when the deadline looms. J John Weeks said this on July 24, 2012 at 4:01 am I am editing a LONG piece (trt 5 hours) and have a TON of footage - all h.264 clips. I created a ProRez seq, and the render time was over 20 hours. Seriously. Also, the render took about 100 GIGS. And this is just an hour long seq. I have 4 more to go! Plus, if I turn a layer on/off, it needs to render again. Time is an issue here, as well as
Final Cut Pro "Out of Memory" Error…FIXED! Booyah Final Cut! Take that! I dont know if anyone who reads this uses FCP7 but if it even helps one person with this INCREDIBLY annoying problem then its worth confusing some readers. Every once and https://hiddenmoonproductions.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/final-cut-pro-out-of-memory-error-fixed/ a while I'll be editing a project and go to render and see this. I know I'm NOT out of memory… In fact, I am currently only using 30% of my RAM. What the https://larryjordan.com/articles/fcp7-general-error/ hell Final Cut? In searching the web I found a couple solutions that worked for some people but I figured out one that has worked every time this pesky error shows up. Here is final cut a simple timeline where the error popped up. Nothing special. Just some opening graphics, interviews strung back to back with supers. How could something this simple cause any problems? The sequence settings looked like this. Here's the solution: - Click in the timeline. - Select all (Command+A) - Copy (Command+C) - Right-click in the Browser window and make a "new sequence" - Right-click on the new sequence go out of memory to settings. - Manually set the settings to match the original sequence (if it is using Compressor settings of either HDV or H.264 you might want to change this to some form of ProRes) - Paste the previously copied timeline in the new sequence. (Command+V) - Render! I bet you've never been so happy to see a progress bar have you? Now go get a beer and celebrate while your sequence renders and you feel that warm feeling of relief come over you… Unless you're at work. In that case, GET BACK TO WORK. You've wasted enough time searching the web for this article! Rate this:Share this:Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related Michael My name is Michael Stephan. I am a 29 year old creative professional who specializes in photography, videography, editing, and compositing. My wife Cody and I have been married for five years and have two beautiful little girls. I have always tried to sharpen my ski
ContestFree ResourcesLARRY RECOMMENDSRelated WebsitesRelated BooksFavorite ArticlesLEARN FROM LARRYFree Step-by-Step TutorialsArticles / BlogFree Weekly WebinarTip of the DayOTHER RESOURCESForum (beta)Editing as a BusinessNewsletter ArchivesSocializeStoreSupportGeneral FAQSupportFCP 7: Fixing a General ErrorPosted on April 28, 2012 by LarryProbably my least favorite error in Final Cut Pro 7 (or earlier versions) is a General Error. It has one of the least helpful warning dialogs and is frustratingly difficult to solve. However, I've learned that when a General Error occurs it is almost always related to a bad clip, or a bad render file, in your sequence. Maybe not always, but this should be the first place to check.General Errors most often relate to render problems; either when you are rendering directly during editing, or rendering as part of an export. While there isn't a fast way to fix this, it can be fixed. Before you attempt to fix a General Error, it doesn't hurt to reset your system by doing a Safe Boot.NOTE: Here's an article that explains how to do a Safe Boot: Trouble-Shoot in Five StepsTHINGS TO CHECK1. While Final Cut SHOULD be able to work with video of different frame rates, it can often have problems when a clip with a faster frame rate (say, 30 fps) is put into a slower sequence (say, 23.98 fps). Disable clips with different frame rates and see if the General Error goes away when you render.NOTE: To disable a clip, select it and type Control+B. A clip changes color when it is disabled.2. It is possible that a specific render file became corrupted. This isn't your fault, every so often it just happens. Delete all render files and see if the error goes away.NOTE: To delete all render files associated with a track, turn off the green visibility light, located in the track header on the left of the Timeline, then turn it back on. This is just a quick click - click. If you don't turn the visibility light back on, all clips in that track become invisible.3. Sometimes clips downloaded from stock image houses are corr