General Error (48) message

[www.peterdo.net]

Ok so I feel like a complete novice, but my scenario is....

I have to make some changes for my company's demo reel. somebody else had cut this and their file structuring is horrendous....all their assets and FCP files are all over the place....anyways I've got to cut certain parts out and replace it with more recent work that we've done....in terms of timing i absolutely need to render things out to see how it looks...

everytime i render i keep getting General Error (48) message that pops up....does anybody know how to troubleshoot this? its quite annoying....

ive tried:

-repair disk permissions/reboot on the computer
-FCP Rescue
-changing the directory of system settings...

all giving me the same results....I need help

THANKS

[Bob Fagan]

Try creating a clean user and open up the project from that user. Could be a preference corruption. What is FCP Rescue?

-Bob

[VaricamLife]

Bob,

FCP Rescue is Anders' program (talked about quite a bit around here). When you have a fresh/safe set of preferences, run his program to back those up. Then if FCP goes wonkers, you can use the program to quickly restore your old Preferences. Can totally be done by hand of course, but its there, its free, and it works great, so why not use it right .

cheers.

[VaricamLife]

Oh right the render issue. Is it one consolidated project or are you having to open up a lot of projects at once? We've run into that issue here a few times because too many projects were open and it stressed FCP out (but they were like 200MB+ projects).

Another thing you could try, if the preferences stuff won't do the trick, is try a different render scratch disc. On one system here at least we hit some kind of wall with the renders until we changed the scratch disc. It was weird as both are external sources (it was never set to the boot disc), but the change seemed to make FCP happy. Anyway, something to think about.

cheers.

[Bob Fagan]

Thanks for the explanation on FCP Rescue. I've always done that manually, but this sounds like a better solution.

[David S.]

How about some specifics like version numbers, media drive, computer RAM, etc.

[www.peterdo.net]

hmmm....yah ive tried switching the render scratch....ive tried "trashing" my settings in FCP Rescue, something is corrupt and I cannot track it down....ive tried everything except re-installing FCP.....but something tells me that might not work either...
it only does it on this one project....

[Bob Fagan]

Try restoring from the autosave folder on an older version of the project.