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Posted by etrenkamp on 10/27/78 11:33
Bill,
Thanks for your help. To answer your questions:
Is this the same machine, OS and FCP versions you used for the first
> edit? What are these details anyway.
Yes. I'm running FCP4 on on a G4 dual processor.
>
> Do you have FCP on the system drive and sources and rendering to a
> second HD?
Yes. I have three hard drives and one external fire wire drive. I run
FCP off of the main OSX drive and have my media and render files on the
external fire wire drive.
>
> How long is the title animation and is it an AE file?
The title sequence is less than a minute. It's not an AE file, it's
stills with animated titles using FCP's Quicktime filters.
> Have you checked the title animation carefully? Is it performing
> redundant tasks? If you could briefly explain the complexity that might
> help.
I went through the title sequence last night and it's fine. By dumping
my existing render files and re-rendering the sequence section by
sequence I discovered that the problem is in the audio of the last 10
minutes of the sequence. It took less than four hours to render
everything else, but it took almost 6 hours to render the audio of the
last 10 minutes. Unfortunately, I discovered this at about 7am this
morning and had to leave for work before I could investigate further.
However, whenever I tried to play one of the rendered sections (not in
this troublesome last 10 minute section) it would play for about 1
second and then a "Drop Frame Error" message would appear. I had no
other applications running and no other windows open. I have 3 gigs on
each of my 3 hard drives and 30 gigs left on my firewire drive and my
trash is empty, so I don't think it's a memory problem.
> What is the total length of the show?
The total length is 40 minutes.
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> How long did it take to render the last time you rendered it?
I can't remember exactly as it was some time ago, but it couldn't have
been more than a couple of hours.
Your advice about running in a new project and reconnecting the media
makes sense. I will try it as soon as I get back home. Any idea what
might be causing the drop frame message?
Thanks a lot!
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