Another "Error Compiling Movie"........I'm saving the last bullet for myself!
by R Summerfield
on
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:54:43 am
Its late, or early if you want t get technical and I'm going to miss another deadline, thanks to Adobe's wonderfull "error" system. About half my projects will not let me render without giving me an "Error Compiling Movie". It says "you do not have permission to create or delete the output file". My latest project, the one I was working on until a couple of minutes ago, has no effects on any clips at all except some simple dissolve transitions. I have 210gig free on the scratch disc and have tried different scratch disc destinations with no luck. The only way around it is to copy the project into a new project each time I get the error. Some of my 30 minute projects have four versions before I get them completed. Needless to say it creates a total mess trying to keep files and everything in any sort of orderly system. I'm not using any weird files or stills. Could someone PLEASE enlighten me on what could be causing the problem?? I have searched the archives and the Adobe help page several times and have seen others with the same problem but no solutions. This is totally unacceptable, I'm really wishing I had bought Final Cut about now. Surely someone has found a fix for this?? Anyone??????
Re: Another "Error Compiling Movie"........I'm saving the last bullet for myself! by Peter Corbett on Jul 21, 2006 at 12:26:58 pm
I've complained about this long and hard. I get it repeatedly with SDI 10-bit uncompressed timelines. some possible solutions I've used...
1. Just keep trying the export. Sometimes on the fifth attempt it works. Go figure.
2. Export to tape then recap. Bulletproof, but I get tetchy aboiut quality loss.
3. Get a second capture card in another PC and run to that for a digital dub. Run to DVD or tape from there.
A little like Solution 2 but probably less quality loss.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
www.php.com.au
Re: Another "Error Compiling Movie"........I'm saving the last bullet for myself! by Steve Spaw on Jul 21, 2006 at 2:40:57 pm
We need more information about your system.
Are your disks NTFS or FAT32?
Is there a network involved?
Multiprocessors?
3rd party filters involved?
Video Hardware? Matrox, Black Magic etc. ?
Re: Another "Error Compiling Movie"........problem solved! For now...... by R Summerfield on Jul 21, 2006 at 4:42:47 pm
I just called Adobie and paid $40 to get a work around. I'll post their answer here for $free.
Apparently there is a corupt file (somewhere?)causing all the trouble. It must be a common file since it affects my new projects as well even though I'm not sharing any clips or files with my other projects. To fix it, I had to set up a new administrator account and change my scratch discs destination to another location outside the project. Problem solved.
I'm still not sure why it wouldn't just let me change the destination before, but setting up a new account fixed it. At least on this project. I'll do any new projects under the new account and hope the corrupt file doesn't follow me over. They said there was no way to know which file was causing the problem so the only fix was to copy the projects into another new project like I had been doing or create the new account and start all my projects fresh from there. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
