Final cut wont render

I've just come across a strange problem. Final Cut will no longer render out. When I click on render all, render video, etc, the task window bar pops up for a split second as it would when rendering, and then closes. I've tried rebooting, trashing preferences, and still nothing. My Final Cut is 5.0.4. There is plenty of room for render. it just wont. Any ideas? Thank you.

I don't know if this will help or not but...
I had a similar issues like this once. My issues were slightly different.
I work in DV NTSC. I use a lot of effects on my clips. I switch over to unlimited RT from Safe RT (Using the little RT button top left on the timeline) If you're in Unlimited RT mode you don't have to Render Unrendered footage to see it. FCPro will play through it as best it can. It'll be a bit jumpy but at least I don't have to render all the time. The kicker is that FC won't let me "render by selection". I get the same issues your describing. A little render window will flicker on screen for a second and then be gone and no rendering will occur.
In my case I either need to "render all" or switch back to safe RT mode and render by selection.
Like I said I don't know if this will help at all but worth a shot.
Good luck.

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