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Error. It has one of the least helpful warning dialogs and is frustratingly difficult to solve. However, I've display unavailable final cut pro 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
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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 final cut pro error out of memory 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 corrupted during the transfer. Disa
enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. This discussion is locked J-tec Level 1 (0 points) Q: FCP "General Error" "out of memory" ONLY with .mp4 files Alright guys, I've done about an hour worth of research now, and cannot figure out why my FCP is doing this.When I
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import an .mp4 (GoPro HD footage to be exact) it will be fine. But once I load
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in say 2 or 3 .mp4 clips into the canvas, it will say "General Error" and pretty much stop working. I have tried to clear the mpeg streamclip preferences, but I don't even have the com.apple. file needed to clear it in there.Also, I've imported numerous .mov files, worth gig's of file memory, and it will load them in there just fine. All i want to do is edit right now and https://larryjordan.com/articles/fcp7-general-error/ this **** thing keeps crashing.Help me out!Jonny Mac OS X (10.5.8) Posted on Jul 15, 2010 12:15 AM I have this question too Close Q: FCP "General Error" "out of memory" ONLY with .mp4 files All replies Helpful answers by the black sun, the black sun Jul 15, 2010 12:19 AM in response to J-tec Level 1 (100 points) Jul 15, 2010 12:19 AM in response to J-tec you need to to convert the .mp4 file into something like ProRes. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2506660?start=0&tstart=0 post by SandraLAVixen, SandraLAVixen Jul 15, 2010 12:36 AM in response to J-tec Level 1 (0 points) Jul 15, 2010 12:36 AM in response to J-tec I've had the same exact problem, FCP seems to be very picky about what video formats you can import.From my experience, you need to convert (transcode) the video to a format FCP will accept and work with.From a lot of trial and error, I found that an h264 video stream along with uncompressed audio (PCM 16bit 2 or 6 channels) in a mov container works best. The video seems to have to be transcoded in order for FCP to accept it (simply copying the video stream from one container to another does not work). Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by OmegaProductions, OmegaProductions Jul 15, 2010 1:57 AM in response to SandraLAVixen Level 1 (40 points) Jul 15, 2010 1:57 AM in response to SandraLAVixen FCP doesn't take kindly to Mp4 and H264 as this is a delivery codec and not an editable one.Drop it into Compressor and convert to ProRes422.Regards,SJ Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by David S., David S. Jul 15, 2010 8:49 AM in response to SandraLAVixen Level 7 (20,634 points) Jul 15, 2010 8:49 AM in response to SandraLAVixen *FCP seems to be very picky about what video formats you can import*Not really. It has always require editing codecs, not acquisition codecs.From a lot of trial and error, *I found that an h264 video stream* along with uncompressed audio (PCM 16bit 2 or
when my edit would no longer save (although thankfully I could save as a copy) and was also intermittently being a bit buggy (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 http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/general-error-in-fcp7/ case the error is 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 Manager or simply select all your clips in http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,276813,277055 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 final cut Larry himself. Thankfully Larry Jordan has some other good tips 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, error out of 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 Twitter Tips for FCPX Editors - Part 2 Every Post on the Blog Ever Every Post on the Blog Ever Select Month October 2016 (2) September 2016 (7) August 2016 (4) July 2016 (7) June 2016 (7) May 2016 (4) April 2016 (9) March 2016 (8) February 2016 (5) January 2016 (7) December 2015 (6) November 2015 (7) October 2015 (4) September 2015 (3) August 2015 (7) July 2015 (6) June 2015 (4) May 2015 (4) April 2015 (5) March 2015 (6) February 2015 (6) January 2015 (4) December 2014 (5) November 2014 (4) October 2014 (9) August 2014 (5) July 2014 (3) June 2014 (6) May 2014 (3) April 2014 (4) March 2014 (5) February 2014 (6) January 2014 (8) December 2013 (2) November 2013 (10) October 2013 (12) September 2013 (6) August 2013 (7) July 2013 (4) June 2013 (5) May 2013 (9) April 2013 (15) March 2013 (13) February 2013 (14) January 2013 (16) December 2012 (9) November 2012 (17) October 2012 (22) September 2012 (23) August 2012 (24) July 2012 (3
X Adobe Premiere Pro CC Avid Media Composer Foro FinalCutPro Jobs lafcpug Market News and Announcements THE ARCHIVES (These forums are READ ONLY) Color Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion DVD Studio Pro Motion Soundtrack Pro FCP Feature Requests Show and Tell The Bug Report Forum List Message List New Topic quickwatson Genreal Error -- making life miserable. Time urgent! March 16, 2012 04:42PM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 3 Hey gang. I'm trying to export a self sontained QT file of a 30 min show I just cut. It gets about 3/4 through, then crashes. The message "General Error" appears. All the files match my seq. settings. Everything is rendered. I clear in & out points & reset. I deleted prefs & flushed caches. I ran Disk Utility, Disk Warrior, Onyx, FCP maintainence pkg. And finally, I just un/reinstalled FCP 7. It's still happening~ Then I tought, "what if it's not the software, but a corrupt file?" (Even though I can play & edit all the files.) So I mounted a different client's drive.... & successfully ouput a self-contained QT file. If it's a corrupt file, and FCP maintainence didn't locate it, what is left to do? My client is having kittens. Thanks in advance! Steve FCP 7 (all software updated) Mac Pro 1, quad tower 6 gigs RAM 1TB storage Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB Memory: 5 GB Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz Reply Quote derekmok Re: Genreal Error -- making life miserable. Time urgent! March 16, 2012 04:49PM Moderator Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 10,771 Try copying just your Sequence to a blank project, close the old project and try the export again. From what you described, sounds like corrupt media, but in case it's a corrupt project file, that could work. If it doesn't, try copying the contents of the Sequence to a new Sequence in a new project. And if that doesn't work either, try exporting a reference movie