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  Compressor 4 (Not Responding) everytime I drag setting to a job

  Posted by Ricardo Guerreiro on December 5, 2011 at 6:50 am

  So, everytime I drag a setting to a a job in Compressor 4 (either to a video sent from FCPX or just oppened directly on Compressor), the application becomes unresponssive or just nothing happens, that is, I drag the setting but nothing appears on the job. Anyone seen this? Solutions? Thanks.

  Liam Hall replied 13 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  Paul Jay

  December 5, 2011 at 8:22 am

  Reset background processes
  Trash preferences
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  Ricardo Guerreiro

  December 5, 2011 at 9:15 am

  Thanks Paul.
  This was actually the first time I launched Compressor 4 and I never did anything to the preferences. Still did what you said but to no avail… didn’t fix the problem.
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  Lemur Hayop

  December 5, 2011 at 8:45 pm

  I have the exact same snafu as the OP. There doesn’t appear to be any mention of this in the FCPX Techniques forum. Anyway, I use Export Movie (H.264) when Compressor screws up.

  https://www.k9sound.com
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  Jim Giberti

  December 5, 2011 at 9:40 pm

  Just had the same issue when doing a few versions of a project for output. I’m mastering everything to Pro Res and then just dragging those files to Compressor. I noticed that it took a few attempts to get the file to “stick”. I simply repeated the task a few times and assumed it was my issue or a sluggish response from a lack of available RAM.
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  Liam Hall

  December 7, 2011 at 1:48 pm

  Compressor 4 has completely stopped working for me and gone on holiday. Seems to be an issue with QMaster. I’ve tried trashing prefs, reinstalling etc, all to no avail.

  It really is a piece of garbage…

  Liam Hall
  Director/DoP/Editor
  http://www.liamhall.net
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  Michael Bernstein

  August 8, 2012 at 3:50 am

  Liam (and all):

  I’ve just downloaded Compressor 4.04 and am experiencing the same problem with the front end: the spinning beach ball and “Compressor not responding” every time I:

  -Drag a setting to a job
  -switch between jobs

  Have you found any improvement or workaround?

  Michael
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  Ricardo Guerreiro

  August 8, 2012 at 8:39 am

  To tell the truh, I stopped using Compressor 4. For the amount of work I was doing, it sufficed to export using Compressor settings through FCPX. So, right now I’m not sure if it somehow is fixed but I never got back to trying it again.
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  Liam Hall

  August 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm

  I gave up and started using Adobe Media Encoder. Then last month, I changed my system hard drive and reloaded all of the software including the operating system and bingo, it was back up and running.

  Liam Hall
  Director/DoP/Editor
  http://www.liamhall.net

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