• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor: Error trying to open source media file

  Posted by Darren Williams on May 9, 2006 at 8:15 pm

  I made a Compressor 2.0 Batch file with about 35 clips in it.

  Now, Compressor keeps coming up with an “Alert: Error trying to open source media file”, and won’t allow me to submit the Batch for compression.

  Any ideas?

  Donald Schmidt replied 16 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  May 9, 2006 at 8:43 pm

  Did you render everything before you sent it to Compressor? Or did you move any media around?

  Compressor is not finding some original source media that it’s requiring to make the files.

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  Darren Williams

  May 9, 2006 at 9:12 pm

  The odd thing is that all files are rendered, and nothing was changed. It just started giving me this error message.
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  Alex Ezorsky

  April 9, 2009 at 8:14 am

  Arrgh, I too am getting this message. It seems that it’s only when I try to import H.264 files. The files play fine in QT whats the deal?????
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  Donald Schmidt

  August 16, 2009 at 12:18 am

  i’m getting the same message anyone know how to fix this problem ?

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