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How to stop Compressor in background?
Set up a droplet for Compressor on my desktop. Dropped file onto droplet. Compressor is now doing it’s thing. How do I stop this operation? I discovered I had the aspect ratio set wrong in the droplet. It’s a long file so I want to stop the operation and delete it, and not have to wait for it to finish.
I tried searching the forum, but my “quotation marks” don’t seem to work. So I can’t search too selectively. I looked through quite a few posts about compresssor and droplets, but couldn’t find anything.
I went to the activity monitor (which I’m not familiar with) and tried to quit process, but that didn’t seem to work. Unless I’m doing it wrong.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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7 Replies
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If you open up the Batch Monitor, you should be able to kill the job there. When that fails, my next solution for this has always been to restart the Mac. Maybe someone here will have a better solution?
Arnie
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I looked in Batch Monitor. It is not there, since I didn’t submit it through Compressor’s interface, but through a droplet on the desktop.
I believe I did restart the MAC. Since it is working in the background, the job continues once the MAC is restarted. (or I believe that is what happened)
Thanks, David
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You can almost always kill an operation three ways:
Navigate to Finder, under the Apple, Force Quit.
finder, Appleications, Utilities, Activity Montiro. find Compressor and hit the kill button.
In the dock, sometimes you can control or right click the app icon and hit quit.bogiesan
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MY BAD!
My file (the wrong aspect ratio) finally finished compressing. When I set up the next job to test the 16×9 setting, I checked in the Batch Monitor and the process WAS listed there. So when I looked the last time I must have not clicked on “This Computer” or there was some other reason the jobs weren’t listed there.
Sorry for the confusion and thanks for your replies. It’s only the 2nd time I’ve used the Droplets on the desktop instead of opening Compressor, so I was a little confused.
David
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In Compressor 3, Open Compressor and under the Compressor Menu, hit “Reset Background Processing”. You can choose to restart the batch or cancel it. Don’t know whether that feature is in earlier versions of Compressor.
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Great answer and solved the same problem for me. Nothing else would. Thank you!
Michael Rothenberg
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Thank you Matt Crum
Your trick solved my problem 😀Surya Samaddar
Freelance Sound Recordist and Post Production Sound Designer
Editor, DVD Authoring, Closed Captioning
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