• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor wierdness…

  Posted by Tad Newberry on April 19, 2006 at 3:24 pm

  i know this is nothing new to most of you, but strange things be going on with Compressor. yesterday, it kept rendering the wrong audio track. additionally, when it is done rendering now, it ends up closing the FCP project that it was rendering (not really such a terrible thing), but i’m just curious as to why it would do this. in other words, when the render is done, all that is left open for FCP windows is the Browser and the Viewer. before yesterday, the FCP project windows were left unchanged when Compressor was done. i trashed the FCP prefs yesterday with no change in the way Compressor behaved. finally got a good render out of Compressor overnight (that is, it rendered the right audio track), but i had not done anything differently.

  thanks for helping out a bonehead,

  jtn

  Alexander Kallas replied 20 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  April 19, 2006 at 6:04 pm

  Export a self-contained movie from FCP. Do not use reference movies and do not use export to compressor.
  Open Compressor as a separate application, not from within FCP, and import your self-contained movie.
  Compressor works much faster on its own than from within FCP. A self-contained movie cannot lose track of its reference links in nests or speed-altered clips. You can also apply several different settings to the same file, use Batch Monitor top send you email when it’s done or move the clips to a server.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Jeff Carpenter

  April 19, 2006 at 6:33 pm

  I was under the impression that using “Export to Compressor” from within Final Cut was working slower because it is aware of (and accounting for) all of the transitions. In other words, putting more effort into those areas.

  I’m not sure if this is actually true, however. If it is it would be a reason to put up with the extra time. But if I’m just being foolish then exporting this way is a huge waste of time!

  Does anyone actually know the answer to this?
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  Alexander Kallas

  April 19, 2006 at 9:15 pm

  Hi Jeff,
  It appears that FCP re-renders all frames in the 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 colorspace before handing off to Compressor, and avoids another transcode to dv before compresssion (compression on compression-not good)
  This is why this route takes longer.
  Definately the way to go, and NOT a waste of time!

  Cheers
  Alexander

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