Little Frog in High Def

I wonder if Digital Rebellion's new FCS Maintenance app's corrupt clip finder would seek out the bad clips?

Nope…that wasn't it. I added to the blog post. It seems like it is still a mysterious error. FCP 7 had no issues exporting the QT movie.

But I still should get that FCP Maintenance set.

Hi Shane!

1. Did you try "Saving As" the project?

2. Did you try creating a new project and then dragging across the sequence?

3. Did you try exporting out an XML and bringing that into a new project?

For whatever reason, I have had issues in the past where an actual project file has become corrupt (normally when it gets past a certain size). Creating a new project and then bringing in only the sequences I need normally fixes it.

Or… it could have just been a Color round-trip bug (that is now fixed in FCS2009).

Best Regards, Chris!

1. Yes, I did a SAVE AS a new project…same error

2. I created a new project and brought over only the sequence…same error.

3. XML…no, I didn't do that. I simply opened in FCP 7 and exported from there and had ZERO issues. I think some oddness was happening with that project only.

Are all of these clips from Color? Sounds like a frame rate error to me (one of the clips is 24.0, when the timeline is 23.976 or whatever).

Jeremy

Everything is 29.97. And yes, all the clips are from Color. BUT…as I said, the error would pop up on clips that worked fine when I exported the small section, but then didn't when I tried them as a one BIG export. It was like Whack a mole…a good clip suddenly said it was corrupt. IT WASN'T! Again, this worked fine with FCP 7, so I am chalking this up to a mystery issue with one out of 24 shows.

Once when I had that problem, it was because I had put some Magic Bullet filters on some moving jpgs. Removing the filter entirely solved it, and I never was able to put it back on and render.

Shane,

I've been editing a feature the last few weeks on FCP 6.0.5, and this problem occurs every now and then. To solve the issue and continue working I have simply been going into the render manager and deleting/removing the render files. Immediately after doing this it solves the problem.

Shane. I had the same error message and I found this blog looking to see if anyone else had a similar problem. I am using FCS 3 with all the updates. I found that it was a color rendering problem.

Several clips rendered from Color with two extra (black) frames at the end. In the FCP sequence the clip was offset two frames late so the black frames were included in the timeline. This caused a GENERAL ERROR when sending to Quicktime Movie.

My solution was to use the Trim window to check all edits looking form black frames – slipping the clips with black frames to remove them from the timeline. The BLACK FRAMES from the COLOR RENDER were somehow illegal. Now I am checking to make sure the sync has not be lost.

Oooo…good one. Delete and redo renders. I'll try that next time.

I had an almost similar issue that happened on a couple of the eps on a series. Same machine, same settings, but only happened on 2 or 3 eps out of 13.

Although I could ETT, or export a reference movie, I just couldn't do a SCQT. Turned out that was caused by clips with their effects "baked" in before sending to Color. My only efficient workaround was to check "recompress all frames".

just had this come up – read through some of the solutions here but nothing is working – the weird thing is that
it will not do render selection – only render all and then I get general error.
done new sequence save as etc – fcp rescue blah blah – such a pain in ass

I had some errors (out of memory) which I thought I had licked but it kept coming back (FCP 7- hate FCP X) so I used the Digital Rebellion Pro Maintenance Tools (trial version) and I got the general error message while Quicktime Converting. I did the full preference clean.
Now I gotta fix my FCP. I know I’ll be moving to Premier but I was hoping to do it AFTER helping my current clients.
It might be because there was something in my preferences which allowed me to make Quicktime files before I trashed them…
* Saved as new project- no dice
* created new sequence in that project and copy pasted- no dice.
* Cleared the render manager, re-rendered, then export- no dice.
* No special filters (apart from smoothcam and speed change to 80%)
* No color usage at all.
* Tried nesting the whole sequence- no dice
* Converted my one picture to TIFF with same dimensions of the movie and it worked for a brief time.

Shane said “I simply opened in FCP 7 and exported from there and had ZERO issues.”… I wish I knew what you did to fix it to go from his earlier “mysterious error” to “ZERO issues”.

I did try the trim edit (sequence menu) and I found a weird thing in one of the clips. Lots of black frames and graphics. The clips were fine before… what’s the story? Oh Gosh- I have 40 minutes to check – with lots and lots of 2-10 second cuts… I fixed that cut and now I get out an of memory error (clear render profile and lots of space on HD).

Still no dice. It’s OK to render as Quicktime Movie but NOT convert (no matter the settings) and it seems OK to “send to compressor” so I’ll use the Export movie option to see what it looks like (hellishly large file size but it works) then use send to when I’m happy.

I had the same color round-trip problem in FCP7 with clips randomly having 2 frames of illegal black at the end. This caused the failure to write to Quicktime every time. Slipping out the black frames that color added to the end of random clips fixed it for me. Thank You!!!

ps – I was able to backdoor export with the bad frames by using compressor from w/in FCP7. This did get it out, but who wants random errors in an export.