FCP Red Screen of Death at DVinfo.net

Benjamin Hill · December 10th, 2007, 01:44 PM

Editing HDV in FCP 6, here are the specs:

- regular HDV 1080/60i timeline
- Digital Cinema desktop preview on 2nd monitor
- system is 2x3GHz Quad-core Intel xeon, 5GB RAM, display card is ATI Radeon X1900 XT

After an hour or two editing, with only a few sequences open, the preview screen will go white, then the image comes back, and then the preview screen goes all red with white text: "OUT OF MEMORY"

Anyone experienced this?

thanks for any info,

Mike Flynn · December 10th, 2007, 07:21 PM

I experience this all the time. So far the only thing I have done to fix it has been to restart.

Nate Weaver · December 10th, 2007, 07:36 PM

I only get this when I'm using media in the timeline that's a "no-no"

mpegs? mp3s?

Anything that's not on the Quicktime shortlist will do it usually.

Benjamin Hill · December 10th, 2007, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Flynn

I experience this all the time. So far the only thing I have done to fix it has been to restart.

Yes, I re-start FCP until it does it again, usually after a few hours.

Benjamin Hill · December 10th, 2007, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate Weaver

I only get this when I'm using media in the timeline that's a "no-no"

mpegs? mp3s?

Anything that's not on the Quicktime shortlist will do it usually.

Does straight-up 60i HDV qualify as a "no-no"?

Nate Weaver · December 10th, 2007, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Benjamin Hill

Does straight-up 60i HDV qualify as a "no-no"?

Of course not.

But you can say with absolute certainty that's the only type of media in your project? No stills? Just making sure.

I've also had the problem with plug-ins not updated for the current version of FCP running.

Benjamin Hill · December 11th, 2007, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate Weaver

Of course not.

But you can say with absolute certainty that's the only type of media in your project? No stills? Just making sure.

I've also had the problem with plug-ins not updated for the current version of FCP running.

Just HDV. No stills, mp3s or anything else. Couple TIFFs in the browser but nothing on the timeline but straight-up HDV.

Interesting about the plug-ins, not using any yet. Thanks for sharing the info.

December 10th, 2007, 01:44 PM	#1
Benjamin Hill Major Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Iowa City, Iowa Posts: 670	FCP Red Screen of Death Editing HDV in FCP 6, here are the specs: - regular HDV 1080/60i timeline - Digital Cinema desktop preview on 2nd monitor - system is 2x3GHz Quad-core Intel xeon, 5GB RAM, display card is ATI Radeon X1900 XT After an hour or two editing, with only a few sequences open, the preview screen will go white, then the image comes back, and then the preview screen goes all red with white text: "OUT OF MEMORY" Anyone experienced this? thanks for any info, __________________ youtube.com/benhillmedia linkedin.com/in/benhillmedia

December 10th, 2007, 07:36 PM	#3
Nate Weaver Wrangler Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 2,100	I only get this when I'm using media in the timeline that's a "no-no" mpegs? mp3s? Anything that's not on the Quicktime shortlist will do it usually. __________________ My Work: nateweaver.net

December 10th, 2007, 07:21 PM	#2
Mike Flynn Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Renton, WA Posts: 94	I experience this all the time. So far the only thing I have done to fix it has been to restart.