Cleaning up 600 gb of render files

I made a large project and have 600 gb of render files from audio, video, and color. I know a lot prob isn't in use or needed hcan I delete it all then just rerender? There an easy way to lean this up?? Thanks

Try using Tools>Render Manager.

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  • Corrupt render files

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  • STP render file could not be written

    Hi, I'm on STP 3.0.1 and trying edit a sound track that is ~20 min long. All I'm doing is putting together this voiceover track from multiple takes that were captured before and I'm laying them in the timeline, cleaning and doing minor tweaks. It's pretty straight forward. Everything worked fine until half an hour ago. I started getting an error message "render file could not be written". I'm using an external drive (Glyph) which seems to be working fine and I have 1.3 TBytes on it free. I have no idea what's going on. Anyone can help?

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  • Render files being deleted by app

    I have several different sequences in a project. Whenever I try to render all the remaining unrendered sections of video in a given sequence, it completes the render and then deletes a previous render file, causing previously rendered shots in the sequence to suddenly become unrendered in the timeline.

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  • Render files disapearing

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    Memory:     2 GB
    Bus Speed:     1 GHz
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    What is happening is the program is looking for render files that seem to have disappeared/ become unlinked. This can be the result of corrupted FCP preferences or moved scratch locations.
    * Download and run FCP Rescue. Just Delete (trash) your preferences for now.
    * Verify the location of your scratch disk and if necessary change the it to the apporpriate drive. Once set, don't change the location.
    * Delete all your render files using the Render Manager. Don't worry, any that are needed will be regenerated.
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    x

  • Reconnect media and render files

    Hi!
    I need advice. On my G4 and four different external LaCie hard disks I have five different Final Cut Pro 4.5 projects running, i e they are finished but I would like to keep them a bit more before I throw them in the bin. OS is 10.3.9.
    I thought I had control but I hadn’t. When I look around I notice that my projetcs’ different folders have been created in other places than I thought. Furthermore in some of the folders (Render folders and others) there are more than one project’s files.
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    I’d be happy for your views on this matter, Björn Obenius, Sweden

    Yes it's quite easy.
    First you need to set up your scratch disks in FCP preferences. Where did you want to save all you renders, audio, media files, and even back up project files.
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  • Render Files Folder is HUGE!

    I am currently working on a photo slideshow in Final Cut Pro X. When I opened up the Finder, I noticed that I only had 30 GB of space available. I was surprised since I had over 70 GB just a few days ago. I then noticed that in my project's folder, there was a folder called "Render Files" that is OVER 50 GB! I don't really understand this, as all of my photos came from an 8 GB SD card. Is there a reason this folder is so big? It also seems that as I add Ken Burns to photos, the folder keeps growing. Even as the percent rendered goes up, the folder doesn't shrink.

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  • Missing render file

    Hi, I'm trying to clean up some audio in soundtrack, however when I save to file and go back to FCP it says my media is offline and missing the render file. before I saved in soundtrack I rendered to action. when I search my cpu for this missing file it is no where to be found.
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    Work flow is very important and this is a very good example of why.
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  • Project cannot open: "Searching for Movie Data" in render file

    My feature-length project suddenly stopped loading today, pausing at 47% to complain that a bunch of render files are missing, and that "this movie cannot play without the file..." I've seen these error messages when trying to open Quicktimes that refer back to files that no longer exist, but not when trying to open an FCP project file. My autosaves are giving me the same problem. The render it lists is "Rough Cut" something or other, which refers back to sequences I haven't used in weeks.
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    It sounds like you used a reference quicktime in your project and the media that the quicktime referenced is deleted or that the system has some how or other lost track of it. This can be a tricky problem to fix. Andy's advice may get you up and running, but you will still be unable to work with the problem quicktime. I always try to export selfcontained qt's because of this potential problem.

  • What are the "rules" regarding render files?

    OK...one PO-ed user here, wondering *** is going on...
    I've always said that FCP is about as weak as an early version of Media 100 when it comes to render files.  You can search my posts (not that you'd want to...), and find that I've been complaining about every system I regularly work on losing render files like a 6 year old loses mittens.
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    As it turns out, yes, hopeless...because when I navigated to the Render Files folder, there was a grand total of 11 render files for this particular project.  Now, I don't change my System Settings at all...I like where things go, I have my media volumes set up, everything should be hunky-dory, no?
    So to get to the heart of the matter...what process is tossing render files?  Why are they disappearing from my hard drive?
    I have folders from projects from 2 months ago that have some render files in them, but I don't have the render files my system (supposedly) created on Tuesday!
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    Hey, Shane, as soon as I saw you posted I began to get deja vu all over again, as we had a discussion about losing render files which, yes, caused me to stop nesting...for the most part.  So yes, here we again have evidence that the "nesting behavior" coding team took off early the day they were supposed to be bug-fixing...but i digress.
    I nest only when necessary...generally, we edit "packages" (your acts) and then I get em, do whatever audio and color correction time allows, and copy and past them into my complete program sequence.
    However, when all is well, good, revised and approved, I "edit" that complete 22:10 sequence into my "BS" sequence (you might guess, Broadcast Safe), which has the bars n tone requested by the broadcast mothership, and where I apply a light Broadcast Safe filter and a touch of compression to the audio.  So I guess my only question here it...are you suggesting that I just splat-A my edited sequence and apply the filters to the gazillion-odd clips individually?

  • Backing up files on external hard drive... do I need to keep render files?

    Hi, I back up all of my video work and files onto DVDs and to a Lacie external hard drive. I am filling that up quickly and would like to know if I need to keep copies of the render files, which are quite large. Will it save me that much time later? Or are they simply taking up much needed space?
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    Welcome to the forum!
    Render files can always be regenerated if needed. I dump them before backups.
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