• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Problems starting Compressor

  Posted by Martin Kulik on April 29, 2008 at 9:53 pm

  Anyone who could help me to solve this problem. I installed os x 10.5 and installed final cut studio 2. When I create projects and export it to Compressor it seams the compressor starts launching, but then nothing happens. I tried to reinstalled the operating system twice as well as final cut studio, but did not solve the problem. I also format the drive and start it fresh and I am getting the same result. I never had this problem running under 10.4. Anyone who could give me advice what is causing the problem?
  Thank you.
  Sincerely,
  Martin Kulik

  Donal O kane replied 18 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  April 29, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  have you run all the Software Updates? compressor should be up to 3.0.3 when you’re all done. you may have to run software update multiple times to get everything.

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  Martin Kulik

  April 30, 2008 at 3:18 am

  Yes I got all the updates and problem remains the same.
  Martin

  mk
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  Martin Kulik

  April 30, 2008 at 3:19 am
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  Martin Kulik

  April 30, 2008 at 3:20 am

  Yes I got all the updates installed and problem remains the same.
  Martin
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  Donal O kane

  April 30, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  Compressor can have problems starting if something has happened with qmaster.

  Check to see if the qmasterd precess is running in the activity monitor. You might need to reinstall qmaster and compressor.

  Use pacifist to install just qmaster and compressor (and sometimes motion (not the motion content!)) = much faster

  I have had qmaster/compressor stop working several times now, as a result of …. i dunno ghosts or something … bad karma maybe … using these instructions i’ve gotten it working again each time.

  These instructions show how to fix most of the problems i’ve come up against.

  https://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2008/01/11/compressor-hatred-resolved/

  https://www.kashum.com/blog/1152611689

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93234

  But one time i just had to bite the bullet and reinstall everything .. i used FCSRemover to properly remove old install and then reinstalled and presto! … i only used this when nothing else worked.

  good luck.

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