Effect failed to render

I am getting a red screen that says "The effect 'Soft Focus' failed to render: Your hardware cannot render at the requested size and depth." What kind of hardware do I need? We spent a lot of money on this machine. I tried rendering manually (instead of real-time), but it didn't help.

Hi! Not sure what you mean by the size of the "still" but the video size and the source footage is at DV resolution (720x540). I was trying to apply the effect to a video clip. I noticed on another thread that this error message can manifest itself when you have more than one video card (which I do). I turned off the Mac, moved my two editing monitors to one video card and put my projectors on another. After that, FCP applied the effect correctly without the error message. So everything works now! Just finished a video project for our banquet, and after this crash course in FCP I feel like I have a much better understanding of it. Thanks for answering all my newbie questions on the other posts too!

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