Re: Out of Memory error about to make me go postal!

[Tom Von Doom] "Does anyone know what the deal is with the memory allocation thing? I don't know if the utility is misreading it or if FCP is not interacting with the OS properly or what. I can't help thinking this is related to the problems we're having. I'd just love to know...."

Tom,

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I'm glad you seemed to have fixed your issues. I would have told you to do the same thing that seems to have fixed you up.

FCP actually handles large projects quite well, even beter than Avid in my opinion, and without slowing up at all in most instances. However, in some cases, especially on long-term projects that get revised over and over and wind up with many stored timelines, the database can become corrupt and then crazy things start to happen. That's what you're seeing in your case.

Now you know what to look for and how to fix it... That's about 98% of the battle. The rest should be just creative from here on out.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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