Final Cut Pro Won Render General Error
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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 final cut pro 7 General Error. It has one of the least helpful warning dialogs and is frustratingly fcp 7 general error out of memory difficult to solve. However, I've learned that when a General Error occurs it is almost always related to a bad clip, or a display unavailable final cut pro 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
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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 final cut pro error out of memory 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 corrupted during the transfer. Disable any stock shots (select the clip and type Control+B) and re-render.4. If these first three suggestions don't work, you will need to get a bit more methodical by rendering your project in sections until you finally isolate the clip(s) that is causing a problem. To render just a portion of your sequence, select roughly 10% of your clips and render. If that works, SAVE YOUR PROJECT, then render the
when my edit would no longer save (although thankfully I could save as a copy) and was also intermittently being a bit buggy http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/general-error-in-fcp7/ (always sets off the paranoia feelings). Often the best thing to do in these situations is to trash your preferences (see below) but in this case the error is http://mosx.tumblr.com/post/8353326625/how-to-solve-a-general-error-in-final-cut-pro-7 most likely related to a ‘bad' clip or a ‘bad' render. So to dump all your renders in one go and hopefully fix the "general error" either use the Render final cut Manager or simply select all your clips in a timeline (CMD+A) and then toggle all the clips off and on again (CTRL+B). This will remove all the renders and flush the undo queue. It could also be due to a ‘bad clip' and for this I'll pass you on to Larry himself. Thankfully Larry Jordan has some other good tips final cut pro on this kind of stuff and you can read them in detail here… When to (and not to) trash your preferences How to trouble shoot your FCP7 & X system Share this:TweetPrintMoreEmailPocket Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials Sound Design on The Dark Knight Rises You may also like Affordable Colour Grading Monitors April 4, 201527 min read Inside Professional Editing Timelines January 28, 20168 min read Film Editing Keyboards, Mouse, Controllers and more August 24, 20143 min read Free Film LUTS for Editors, DITs and Colorists February 29, 201610 min read Leave a Comment X CommentName * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Free Weekly Newsletter – Sign up to never miss a post! Follow Me twitter vimeo rss linkedin facebook Top posts Free Film LUTS for Editors, DITs and Colorists Affordable Colour Grading Monitors Film Editing Keyboards, Mouse, Controllers and more Useful Things For Your Edit Suite Every Post on the Blog Ever Every Post on the Blog Ever Select Month October 2016 (2) Sept
focus on productivity, spirituality, sport and exercises, overcoming beliefs, and meditation. Generally stuff that I'm up to and things that were going through my head for some time. Understand German? You can read a really great interview how I roll here. You can find my personal iPhone and iPad homescreens here. On MOSX I used to publish tutorials and reviews of OS X and iOS apps in English and German. Now I produce animated explainer videos, custom screencasts, and app previews only. Read my free book 10 Tips for Creating Engaging Product Videos. MOSX is also on Twitter , Facebook and Google+. Mac OS X Screencasts Tumblelog ( http://mosx.tumblr.com/ ) As some of my Twitter followers might know. I had a “General Error” constantly showing up in Final Cut last week. The program just stopped playing and was showing this message. Next to it was a neat looking OK button, but nothing else. Just a stupid OK button. All logs didn’t give any hint on what might cause this problem, the logs weren’t even constant. Sometimes there were log entries, sometimes there weren’t, sometimes they were referring to some sort of Motion.framework bug, but most of the time they weren’t. Really weird. A “General Error” usually occurs when there is a problem with corrupted media files. A friend told me: visibly corrupted. My media was fine though. Heck there wasn’t even much of a change at that location in the timeline. General Error. 4 days, including my weekend, wasted, trying to find a solution. Here’s what I did, before I decided to re-record that damned 30-minute screencast, grudgingly. Remember I’m getting this error on a clip that hasn’t been altered. Re-export the media file from ScreenFlow with same settings. Re-export the media file with different settings. Re-encode using a different media encoder like Compressor. Re-encode using a non-Apple media encoder like MPEG Streamclip. (Which also has a handy “fix corrupted frames” function) Create a new sequence, copy & pas