Color crashes when I try to render

Question

It'll start rendering, but then after awhile it will just crash.
Here's the whole story in case it's important:
I loaded this project in color, and color corrected it, then I tried to render it, but when it got close to the end it said I needed to make some more room on my hard-drive. I had some stuff under another user that I didn't mind losing, so I quit color, switched users, deleted my stuff, switched back to my original user, and opened color back up again. I finished rendering the very end, and then I tried to send it to final cut, but it said it wasn't rendered. Then I tried to render it again, but now it crashes every time.
Message was edited by: glen fortner

Answer 1

I checked and it looks like it's exporting to "Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2." I tried changing it to "Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)" but the computer just crashed again.
When I reloaded color after it crashed, I checked the shot list, and it said that the first shot was still rendering and the rest of the shots were "queued."
I was able to independently render a couple of my shots. I sent two shots to a new color project, applied the same color grading, rendered it, saved it, exported it to final cut (thankfully, it didn't say that my shots weren't rendered), then once inside final cut, I spent a couple minutes rendering the shots again. I'll probably just go through that process for the entire project unless there's an easier way. I didn't think that size would be an issue because my movie is only two minutes long, but it looks like I might be wrong.
When do I press "APPLE-F" exactly? I tried it a couple different times and nothing came up.
I went into my hard-drive, and looked in the "renders" file in the "color documents" file. Anyway, both of the two shots, have a render file that's about 1 gigabyte in size. Also, I don't know if this is important, but I found the render files for the smaller project in a weird place. See, my original project with all the shots is called, "insufficient weaponry" and the smaller project with the just the two shots was called "insufficient weaponry try two." The folder "insufficient weaponry try two" was inside of the folder "Insufficient weaponry."
thanks!