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question on how to use final cut and compressor
ok this is bugging me i have used compressor so many times for both dvd and youtube what i dont understand is why should a 12min final cut project should take 25hours to convert to youtube when sent to compressor?. i have a project in final cut x its 12 min long and some seconds,when i send it to compressor last night it was showing 8hours left and when i checked today its saying 25hours left 🙁 so frustrating for a 12 min video. Last week i worked on a 1920×1080 dvd video 1 and half hours long and took less than 5hours in compressor. any ideas?
I have a Mac pro 3.0ghz 8gigs of ram
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I’ve experienced longer compress times when sending from FCP to compressor, but not this long. Is the project rendered? If you are encountering these kinds of delays and need a quicker fix, export your timeline to a QT file and bring it into compressor that way. Should hopefully take a lot less time. If it doesn’t, then looks like there could be other issues, perhaps with compressor’s pref files, etc…
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company -
You should seriously be able to make a YouTube h264 in about 20min from a 12 min file. If you can’t figure out compressor, just get Mpegstreamclip clip. Of course QTPro 7 is an option if you have access to that.
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