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Rendering Error Code 4

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 8, 2018
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Hello Forum, Today I have been getting this Error Code when trying to render, even short clips.

I have been unable to find any specific online help

As an experiment, I opened a different Premiere Pro project and was able to render without any issues. However, when I reverted back to the problem project, the error recurred. When I try to render different parts of the project, I get the same Error Code 4 but the timecode numbers are different. I have been rendering within this project for a few days without issue. So why now?

elliceel16

Participating Frequently

I keep getting the same error message. Even on videos with no effects.

ALIASLABS

Participating Frequently

Memory is full on your scratch disk drive

elliceel16

Participating Frequently

How do I find where my scratch disk drive? And how do I clean it so my rendering is working.

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Elise5FC3

Participant

I had this issue today and tried a few of the mentioned solutions, but what appears to have worked for me is slightly adjusting the position of things on my timeline, and instead of marking the entire portion that I needed rendered, I just did it in chunks. So I made my in and out markers much closer together and went pieces at a time. No more errors right now. I have no idea why that would work.

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Zain5FE8

Participant

I am having this Issue from the last 2 days and i am so frustrated as i am unable to do my work on it please help me on getting this resolved

davids58395606

Inspiring

The new version has been crap for exporting, just check the reddit to see other people having the same issue.

I just export about 5 times, constantly until it randomly decides to work one of the times (not sure why it does) Software only isn't an option since I have deadlines and can't wait 6 hours for a render, so just try a few times in a row until it decides to work 🙂

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jericksalvain

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Did you solve or find a way to fix this problem temporary?

I can't render a XML exporter timeline out of Davinci Resolve in Premiere Pro and gives me the error code 4 aswell..

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Federico5E8A

Participant

if you are using a hard disk, most probably, it is because you accidentally disconnected the hard disk, I had the same problem

Alex Nichols

Participant

I ran into this problem just yesterday and went through the annoying trials of dealing with it this morning, like everyone else who uses Adobe Premiere Pro, I came on here to seek answers and used every trick suggested.
Alas, many of them did not work. Except for one.
I removed the effects I had added to the video clips to enhance the visual appearance, to my surprise, and relief, that worked. The error message went away, I was able to render and save the project and I am in complete blissful joy right now.

And it's for that reason I wanted to come on here and thank you and everyone within the Adobe Community for your advice and help for one another when we all suffer from troubles like these ones.
Stay healthy and safe and, to all content creators out there who use Adboe, keep on creating!

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Michael Grenadier

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thanks for your thanks and thanks for posting your solution. but... wondering why it worked. If you want to help others, it would be a good idea if we could figure out what was causing the problem. Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card and tell us your source properties and your sequence settings? Were any of the effects you'd applied 3d party effects? If not, what effects were they?

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nhadley12

Participant

I'm also getting this error, and it was working fine before, I have a brand new computer. Very concerning.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

benediktf96484630 if your problem was that you had insufficient hard disk space, removing a few files may solve the immediate issue but you're still sitting on a timebomb. You should always keep at least 10% free space on any hard drive and atleast 20% on your startup drive. If your hard drive has very little space available, things can get corrupted and you could potentially lose everything on the drive. Many programs will automatically write files to your startup drive so you need to regularly monitor the space available cause this can bite you on the butt at the worst possible moment. I know TechToolPro has a utility that will warn you if drive space is becoming a problem. I'm sure there are other apps out there that will do the same thing.

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jamest90014167

Participant

Your hard drive is probably full. Mine was until I realised. Was getting this error messgae.

Try another drive ffor you rnders or exports.