• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor Not Working

  Posted by Lucas Cheadle on February 3, 2009 at 6:37 am

  Goal is to export an FCP timeline to Compressor.
  Then set Compressor to encode m2v for dvd, submit, open Batch monitor and watch time elapse tick away while there is nothing in the status bar.
  There’s also no action in FCP where usually there’s a window & status bar & “frame” ticker going on for the duration of the encode.

  I’ve tried Compressor Repair.
  I reinstalled Compressor after using FCP Remover.
  I want to the Apple.com support white page with the Compressor removal directions. Nothing helps.

  Any ideas? How did it get so broke that I have to try a complete OS reinstall?

  Anna Greve replied 16 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  February 3, 2009 at 11:38 am

  Clean the “History” and send a new job.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Neal Broffman

  February 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm

  Try to export your timeline as a reference movie and then import that movie into Compressor for conversion. This is generally accepted as the most efficient way to do it and may solve your problem.

  Neal Broffman
  One Production Place, Atlanta, GA
  “Voices of Freedom”, Special Jury winner for Fall 2008 CINE Awards produced for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of a major exhibition of vintage Civil Rights Movement photographs, “Road To Freedom”. Currently on display in DC at The Smithsonian Institution followed by The Skirball Cultural Center in LA, then Seattle, Chicago and NYC.
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  Lucas Cheadle

  February 3, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  Yeas I tried that… clearing History and Que. Didn’t help.
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  Lucas Cheadle

  February 3, 2009 at 5:24 pm

  Thanks. I tried that and it didn’t help. I just finished a complete OS erase & reinstall. Now Compressor works. Serious loss of productivity.
  Maybe the issue, if it returns, will be remedied once I update to FCP 6.0.5 et al. I’m still at 6.0.4 as the rest of my company’s editors/computers haven’t made the update yet.
  Thanks again.
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  Rafael Amador

  February 4, 2009 at 6:00 am

  Hi Lucas,
  If you just have re-installed the full lot, make your self a favor and run DiskWarrior or TechTools.
  Is the only way to start with a really clean system.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Anna Greve

  March 24, 2010 at 11:09 am

  i guess this is already resolved but for what it´s worth there´s a cool little freeware program called “compressor repair” that seems to fix everything that goes wrong with compressor.

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

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