I posted this on creative cow as well:

First the basics:

8core, radeon x1900, 8gbs of RAM, running FCP studio2 w/magic bullet v.2.

I am literally pulling my hair out... any help is much appreciated!!!


1. my project (editing HD in prores 422) all of a sudden is playing in the canvas as if it is unrendered (it stutters, etc.) even though it was fully rendered... w/blue line above it. played fine the other day! I double checked that I had full quality playback set, and sure enough I did. So then I tried to output it as a self contained QT movie just in case, but it just stalled and then said "general error". So obviously something is majorly messed up! So then, I went to step 2 which was to trash all the render files and just render the whole thing again. Then...

2. I got this error: (which I actually get ALL THE TIME... on my other editing systems too... and w/older versions of FCP:)

"AE Effects Error:
Rendering error using
"Misfire Vignette.bundle".
Verifty filter parameters."

(i use this filter a lot - but never in AE, only in FCP).

This error seems to pick and choose when it occurs. And it happens on ALL of our 6 editing systems and has happened w/all previous versions of FCP as well which is why, when I decided to look everywhere for an answer, I was shocked to find no information anywhere about this. Usually our "fix-it" is to turn the computer off for a bit, turn it back on and that seems to work, except not today.

3. After I clicked out of this error message, I noticed that some clips were "halfway" rendered. in other words, part of random clips had the blue line while the other part of a clip had a yellow. I tested the blue part and sure enough.. it still played back as if it was unrendered. (and yes, I have all the render options checked) What gives???

so then I tried trashing my prefs but I think they are somewhere different in FCP6.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!! :) :)