Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!!
by Kristoffer Newsom
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Jul 14, 2008 at 7:39:03 pm
8-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 720P 24fps media, sent from FCP to Color, single track of video, no FX, no transitions. The colorist did final color grading, set up to render, went home. The massive render finished successfully, but the computer Kernel Panicked before morning came and one of us could save and then open Final Cut back up to re-link it all.
The render files are INTACT, I checked in the Finder, I even tried manually relinking in FCP, and it works, it's all named according to shot number (sigh), so it's a PITA to relink.
Is there a command in Color to relink the media to the render files? Or look for missing render files or something along those lines? I'm thinking there's GOT to be a better way to do this.
Thanks hugely in advance for any help folks. It's appreciated.
Re: Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!! by walter biscardi on Jul 14, 2008 at 7:56:26 pm
If you did not export OMF from Color, then there's no way I know of to automatically reconnect in FCP. See the file names are not the same from Color as you can tell. They're 1_g1 and only appear as the right file names within FCP when the OMF is successfully transferred back.
Manually rebuilding your whole timeline is the only option when this happens.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!! by Kristoffer Newsom on Jul 17, 2008 at 2:42:41 pm
well, that doesn't work since all the render files aren't being seen. The only real solution here that I could think of would be to open the last autosave before the crash, complete any outstanding renders, and then send to final cut pro, I think...
...but like the fool that I am, I just reconnected it all manually. Which is probably a GOOD thing, because the "send to final cut pro" function isn't working on the next episode we've done. *sigh*
Re: Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!! by Kristoffer Newsom on Jul 17, 2008 at 3:43:53 pm
update: I've corrected the "send to fcp" problem, for some reason, Color rendered to the local documents folder instead of the RAID array, though there was a directory structure for the render files on the array with empty folders. I copied the actual files to the directory that they were SUPPOSED to be in, and lo and behold, it worked.
weird. I wonder why it didn't just render there in the first place...?
Re: Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!! by walter biscardi on Jul 17, 2008 at 4:06:05 pm
This is set in your User Preferences in Color. If you did not set this up correctly, it will render to the internal drive. I've never had Color render to the "wrong" place unless this was set up incorrectly.
[Kristoffer Newsom]"weird. I wonder why it didn't just render there in the first place...?"
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Color finished its massive render.... then crashed!!! by walter biscardi on Jul 17, 2008 at 4:38:45 pm
[Kristoffer Newsom]"I can only assume that it was set up incorrectly - I wasn't the one who actually set that up, just the one cleaning up the mess. ;)
"
So you didn't do the render? I was under the impression you're the one who did the color grading and initiated the render.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
