• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor hangs while encoding m2v

  Posted by Marc Hookerman on December 24, 2008 at 3:24 pm

  First – happy holidays to everyone.

  I just recently began to be plagued with a very annoying problem that I can’t seem to solve and thought someone here might have the solution. Just recently, I was trying to process a quicktime movie exported from FCP and compressor got to about 99% of the AC3 and M2V processing and it just stalled. It gets all the way to the end and then hangs and never finishes the conversion. It just started doing this for no reason I can find – nothing was changed, deleted, etc on my system. Anyone else ever seen this problem?

  Thanks again for the help!

  Jeremy Garchow replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  December 24, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  This happened to me the other day.

  First, Clear you history in Compressor then quit Compressor. Then with the Finder selected hit, command-shift-g and type /var/spool/qmaster from the pop-up and delete the folders out of there.

  

  

  Restart your machine.

  Open up FCP and reexport your movie with a different name, this time keep the name short with no punctuation.

  Try encoding in Compressor again.

  There’s also an application that supposedly fixes compressor, but I haven’t tried it:

  https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

  Jeremy
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  Marc Hookerman

  December 24, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  Jeremy, thanks for the informative reply. I will give that a shot when I get home. Qmaster and Compressor have such a delicate relationship. I appreciate your help. Happy Holidays!
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  Paul Kerby

  July 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm

  All I’m saying Jeremy is you are the man. I know when I see your post i’m getting some information I can rely on… I just tried your fix and it worked perfect…

  Thanks man, I really appreciate your time… Good multicam timecode demo at NAB… Wish I could remember all of it 🙂

  paul
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  Jeremy Garchow

  July 20, 2009 at 3:24 pm

  [Paul Kerby] “Thanks man, I really appreciate your time… “

  You’re very welcome and glad it helped.

  [Paul Kerby] “Good multicam timecode demo at NAB… Wish I could remember all of it 🙂 “

  It was quite a quick overview, indeed. If you have any questons about it, feel free to ask. There’s some cool new P2 tools coming up and I am sure you might see some discussions on how to use them in the future.

  Cheers.

  Jeremy

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