rendering problems 'out of memory'

I have an apple pro res 422 project which is running 77 minutes. I am using an 8tb external drive and have about 5TB available. But now, every time I try to render I get the message 'Out of Memory'. I tried restarting FCP and this fixed it for a while then it came back. I then tried deleting all the render files, and this allowed me to re-render and continue, but now the same problem has come back and nothing I do allows me to render. I guess it is a management problem but I don't know where to go from here. Would appreciate some guidance.

Out of memory does not necessarily refer to drive space. It's usually RAM related. Try going into sequence settings and in the render tab, switch render precision to 8 bit YUV instead of the default high precision YUV.



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Thanks for that info. My setting was on 10 bit YUV. In the meantime I think I might have found the problem. A clip I had photoshopped was exported as a jpeg and that was not rendering. I exported it as a quicktime and tried that and was able to render. I had imagined 'out of memory' would relate to space but I can see it relates to possibly corrupt files or stills or other. If I have the problem again I will try you suggestion of 8 bit YUV. Thanks for the advice

You can get those warnings with over-large still image files, too,or files that are in the wrong format, such as CMYK

Nick

This is a bug in FCS, it has driven me batshit insane. if you re-connect the files they will render. Also turning off external monitor, particularly if you are using a matrox mini.

This happens to me with normal Proress footage with a title dissolve. Not very demanding, on a quad core Mac pro.

If you have an entire timeline that has gone bad like this create a new timeline and manually set the correct specs. Then paste the old non-rendering timeline in using shift+command and dropping on overwrite. I guess this is similar to the reconnect.

I'm not sure how much of this is voodoo, but it's getting me by.

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