I was doing so well

[David Cole]

R.B. thanks for the insight. Here's what I did:

Trashed prefs for Final Cut Express
Copied entire project onto powered Firewire drive w/ Oxford 911 chip 
(project was on SmartDisk drive with no ext. power)
Ran Disk Utility to repair permissions (for good luck)
Opened the FCE project on new drive, selected my in and out points for 
the master sequence.
Export>Quicktime w/ audio & video and chapter markers, reference file 
(not self-contained)
It worked !

I then quit FCE, opened iDVD, created a new project, imported the QT 
ref movie, chapters all showed up!
I let the file render before starting the burn.

I've GOT DISK!

Thanks for the nudge and the timely assist.

-DC


On May 7, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

> Message-ID: <409B0361.1627A81A at comcast.net>
> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:32:51 -0500
> From: R B Williams <brucewll at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [MacDV] I was doing so well...
>
> I have seen this on my system when the sequence is on one FW drive and 
> the preferences
> are set to save to a different one (or even a separate partition). Can 
> you find enough
> space on the same drive for idvd to work?
>
> R.B.
>
> David Cole wrote:
>
>> My first Final Cut Express 2.0.3 movie, about an hour long. Editing on
>> a PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz, OS 10.3.3. External SmartDisk Firewire drive.
>>
>> When I try to output a file for iDVD, the computer hangs up, freezes,
>> crashes the system... must force quit with the power switch and
>> restart. I'm trying to either make a reference QT movie of my master
>> sequence that contains 3 nested sequences or a full rendered QT movie.
>>