Quicktime error 50 and general export error

Recently finished a project in FCPX (10.0.8) on an iMac running 10.8.3 and am unable to share or export the file in any form.
The project has media from SD and HDV cameras as well as images and an audio track consisting of two non-DRM music files.
Initially I tried sharing to YouTube and got the nefarious error 50. Searched near and far for solutions all of which seem to suggest a corrupt media file of some type. I downloaded ProTools but apparently I have no such corrupt file.
I tried exporting the master file and the process continually aborts at frame 1346 and returns 'error 1'.
I was pretty experienced at FCE and am relatively new to FCPX so any help would be very much appreciated. Hate to have all my work lost.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks to a reply on a different thread I was able to get a workaround.
Bought Compressor.
$$
Oh well.

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First try exporting a self-contained movie from FCP, the using the resulting file in Compressor. To do it, go to File->Export->QuickTime Movie (do NOT use QuickTime Conversion). In the export window, check the self-contained option but do not "recompress all frames."
Once the export is finished, launch Compressor then use the self-contained file as the source. If that fails, you may want to try using theis: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressorrepair/
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FCPX does not support NTFS drives, even with Paragon NTFS working perfectly for everything else on the system.
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I wasted hours looking for a solution, when a better error message besides a misleading "cannot allocate memory" could have been something more useful.
Not impressed.

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CC 2014 is running into issues with some clips on my timeline and the export gives an unexpected error.

What gets me is that the clips I narrowed the issues down to are from the same camera and same settings from the rest. It gives the error in h.264(any preset even match source), Quicktime, and even match sequence and match I can however get it to export with AVI- DV widescreen 24p but thats only SD. This is 1080 footage. Ive also cleaned my cache and tried exporting with max bit depth and mrq off/on.

Gspot gives limited info and does not analyse mts, I find media info much better.
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I am not getting this very clear. What error message are you getting exactly and when.

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I haven't had this problem with any of the other videos I've tried to upload to YouTube, including a couple of simple test videos today. The test videos all uploaded just fine.
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IMO, using YT uploader is more reliable.
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I tried deleting some of the layered parts of the video, thinking that perhaps that was causing the problem, but unfortunate
Y that wasn't it.
Anyone know what might cause that error? I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to rebuild the whole film :-(
Thanks
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Im have the same problem as well. Did you guys ever figure out how to resolve the issue?
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HT4714 i cant export my video to any of the destinations on my list.. it keeps saying QuickTime Error -50 what do i do cuz if i cant use it i want my money back

i cant export my video into anything i keep getting a QuickTime Error -50

Unfortunately, these boards have too many similar complaints.
There are variety of things that seem to cause these exporting failures. Most seem to relate to corrupted clips. Here's a list of fixes that have worked to solve some of the reported problems.
First it's worthwhile to trash preferences; use this app.
Turn off Background Rendering.
From within FCP, delete project render files and event render files. Select a short section and export without rendering. If it works, export the full project. If it doesn't work…
Create a new project. Copy the old project and paste into the new project. Export a short test and if it exports. export the full project. If that doesn't work…
Create a new user account.
Good luck.
Russ

Why do i get quicktime error -50 everytime i try to export a project?

why do i get quicktime error -50 everytime i try to export a project?

I had this -50 error when exporting my movie. I tried multiple things to fix that, when I discovered the solution.
When you insert/add/overwrite a clip into the timeline, sometimes FCPX does not generate the vignettes associated to the video (only the audio waveforms are correctly displayed). You can read the clip successfully, apply effects and do everything with it in the timeline, but when exporting this corrupted clip, the -50 error will occur. The solution is then to remove this clip and add it again (it should not bug twice on the same clip!).
So I do not know whether you are in the same situation, but I hope this could help.

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