FCP 7.0.3 export problem

Having problems exporting 90-minute doc through "share" or compressor. Audio is fine; export fails in making mpeg 2, sometimes as long as 45 minutes into the encoding. I get a QT error 0 message.

This is not a new problem, and i have successfully employed the workaround of exporting self-contained QT and putting that through Compressor. BUT....I would rather not have corrupted files in my timeline, if that is indeed the issue. This project has a lot of still photos and archival video from many different sources and I want a fully functional timeline as we head into post production. Last time this happened on this project, we used Digital Rebellion corrupt clip finder to identify problem files, and that did the trick. This time around, it doesn't find any such files in the timeline.

So, I've decided I must run exports on the timeline in chunks to try to narrow down the problem to one scene, and then narrow it down within that scene to find the problem clip. Very time consuming.

Questions:

Does this sound like it will work?
Is there a more efficient way to do figure out what the problem is?

Thanks in advance, COW community!

Regards,
David


Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon; 8 GB DDR3; OS X Lion 10.7.4; FCS3.

hmmmm not familiar with it but it looks like an encoding program. does it have a function to indentify bad clips?

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core INtel Xeon; OS X Lion 10.7.4; FCS 3.

[David Lewis] "So, I've decided I must run exports on the timeline in chunks to try to narrow down the problem to one scene, and then narrow it down within that scene to find the problem clip. Very time consuming.

Questions:

Does this sound like it will work?"
That is the traditional method to search corrupted files and works great, but instead of exporting by chunks, try just rendering the time-line by chunks (then you should be able to exporting the whole movie at once).
If you are able to render the full time-line, that means that there are not files corruption issues and the problem is somewhere else.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

David,
When FC starts to make glitches without any apparent reason is time for a bit of maintennance.
I would start by repairing permissions,if that doesn´t helps, then trashing FC preferences, and if the issue still doesn´t get fixed, I would run DiskWarrior.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

well, did the full reinstall, still won't export to mpeg 2 via compressor. frustrated and at a loss for what to do next. apple, of course, will provide no support.

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core INtel Xeon; OS X Lion 10.7.4; FCS 3.