Exporting Quick Time movie

I'm unable to export to quick time. It would complete about 50% and then freeze. I've got OSX 10.5.6 and FCP academic 6.0.5. I did some repairs in disc utility yesterday to clean up "permissions", and after that a message came up telling me that "FCP requires a Quartz Extreme capable video card" and "FCP recommends I have 64 mb of VRAM", I currently have 0. Could this be my problem? I have been able to play video without any problem.

Thank you,

David Vandergriff

what quicktime format are you exporting to?
what do you mean by "freeze"?

you cant have "0" vram. thats just not possible.

Exactly what computer is this?

It's an iMac

I got to about 70% completed when it stopped. I had to force quit out of FCP. Then I was unable to launch FCP. I had to force quit the finder. That didn't even shut it down, I had to hold the button down until the computer turned off. I went through this four times and gave up.

The "0" vram is the message the computer gave me following cleaning "permissions" with the disc utility.

I think I said exactly. EXACTLY which iMac? The current base model iMacs are not suitable for use with Final Cut and may be a cause of your problems.

My i Mac has 4 GB MHz DDR2 SARAM memory. 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo processor. FCP works fine, it's when I export that I have a problem.

So not the new low end iMacs. Thanks for answering. It sounds like a hardware problem, either the video card or the RAM itself. I'd take it to an Apple store or an Apple service technician.

Thanks Tom for your help, I'll do that.

Can you export to an outside drive or device like a roomy thumbdrive?

- Loren
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Backtracking, backtracking:

Check all your drives and tell us how much free space you have left, out of the drive's total capacity.


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>or device like a roomy thumbdrive?

That brings up a very good point, Loren.

What format are you exporting, how long is the video, how much space do you have in your target drive and what's the total space of that drive. And if you're exporting to your system drive, how much free space do you have in that drive and what's the total space of that drive?



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Problem seems to be solved. I opened a new project in FCP and imported one video file (58 minutes of video - the first field tape), put it on the timeline and successfully exported it using quick time. This time I didn't have several large video clips open.

Thank you for all your input.

You shouldn;t have *any* large video clips except your final. It's best to capture in chunks of 15 minutes or less. Yes, it's extra work marking and logging then batching, but it pays off with kinder media management and response-- especially in older machine slike G4's and 5's, or less capable machines like iMacs.

Less SBBOD all around.

- Loren
Today's FCP keytip:

Fit Timeline Selection to Window with Shift-Option-Z !

Final Cut Studio 2 KeyGuide? Power Pack.
Now available at KeyGuide Central.
www.neotrondesign.com

Thank you,

I have a client who wanted a dvd of the field tapes. Each tape is about 55 minutes long. He wants these to look at before we begin the edit process. The first tape is of a live performance of clients band. In this case, would you still recommend breaking it up into smaller chunks?














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> The first tape is of a live performance of clients band. In this case, would you still recommend
> breaking it up into smaller chunks?

Absolutely. Captures longer than 15 minutes have a much higher risk of sync drift, dropouts, timecode issues, and other problems. It takes about 10 seconds to splice two separate clips back together into a continuous flow; it takes more like an hour to fix up a botched 60-minute capture.


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Great info. Thank you