Locking up on Renders & Edit to Tape
by Scott Sniffen
on
Jul 25, 2008 at 1:36:07 am
I'm working on a new system, Mac Quad Tower with latest OS, etc. I have a Kona LH card and the system had worked perfectly until a month or so ago, I let the system "update" software. New to Mac, I did not check all that it was updating but it did include a FCP update. Nothing has worked right since. Well, I have since updated to the latest 6.0.4 and these problems still persist. Locks up on renders and even edit to tape. I try to edit to tape without rendering effects but it seems to want to "build the video". I assume it try to render the effects. It gets 20% in and locks on me.
Could it be hardware and if so, how can I check? My scratch drive is a Caldigit 4TB Raid (2.6tb free). Is the system just corrupt and the updates are useless? Do I need to dump FCP out altogehter and reinstall from scratch? Funny, when I did the last update, it rendered out some effects I was having trouble with. Then the next day, same problems. Do updates act like a re-install? Seems like it never recovered from that unplanned auto update. All others since I have done via the Apple site manually. Oh yes, trashed the prefs a few times and even checked with AJA but the video is fine, just this render issue.
Re: Locking up on Renders & Edit to Tape by Rafael Amador on Jul 27, 2008 at 1:13:04 pm
Hi Scott,
Bit late.
What I mean is that sounds like you need to make a bit of system maintenance.
Clear your directories with DiskWarrior or TechTools and probably all your troubles will go away
rafael
Re: Locking up on Renders & Edit to Tape by george mizzell on Jul 25, 2008 at 3:18:11 am
Scott
It sounds like you may be suffering the same problem I am suffering from - 6.0.4 is a killer for me and I have not recovered from it. I am the previous post to yours. If you find a solution please let me know.
Thanks
George
Re: Locking up on Renders & Edit to Tape by Scott Sniffen on Jul 27, 2008 at 3:17:10 pm
It was my CalDigit hard drive array. The drivers needed to be updated. That has been done and back to normal. So if you are rendering or capturing to an external drive, update the drivers. You may even check with internal drives. I got this info from Apple support. I have since been put on the update list by CalDigit so I am notified of driver updates.
