Final Cut Pro 4: General Error With a Red Screen in Canvas Window

Batch capture clips longer than 15 minutes instead of using Capture Now if you intend to apply speed.

Products Affected

Final Cut Pro

Symptom

A General Error appears and the Canvas window is red.

This happens after you apply speed to a clip captured via Capture Now that is more than 15 minutes long.


Solution

To avoid this, recapture the affected clips using batch capture.

  1. Select the clips in the Browser.
  2. From the Modify menu, choose Make Offline. The Make Offline dialog appears.
  3. Select "Delete Them from the Disk" and click OK.
  4. Conduct a batch capture of the same clips in order to acquire fresh media for the same media start and media end points.

 

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