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compressor woes
Hello out there,
apologies if this has been asked and answered before:
I’m working in FCP6, exporting 1hr SD PAL anamorphic project to compressor. Never had a problem with other simpler projects but this has in places 12 vid layers (but these are short bursts!)and also includes many stills and they’re jpegs. I know this is frowned upon by some but never had a problem before.
My problem is that on compressing, I either get FCP quit unexpectedly or the Mpeg2 fails in compressor.
I have followed some advice on forums: repairing permissions, deleting preferences of FCP and compressor, copying only the sequence to be exported to a new project and closing all others in FCP, selecting all the timeline and reconnecting media; breaking the project into segments and exporting. These smaller sequences worked until I found a rogue file. So I deleted it, re-packed the project together, exported, again to a big fat FAILED on the video file!!!
This is slowly driving me insane!
I’ve been using standard 90min DVD settings in compressor with the destination of the same raid drive that the project is stored on (but not that FCP is running on.
Not messed around with any details settings in compressor.
The sequence is rendered fully, I’ve read somewhere that deleting the render files may work?
Not sure if I have the system optimised for FCP. I’m working on
an 8 core mac pro 3ghz with 4gb ram, latest Leopard update and all software updated.I’m in the process of exporting via QT conversion then trying that in compressor.
any thoughts?
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3 Replies
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Hi john,
Export a self contained movie and send that to Compressor.
Will be always easier to manage.
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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Thanks Rafael, am trying that now and it seems to be working fine. Do you not lose quality this way though?
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No quality lose if you export using a good codec.
Compressor can always make better the digestion of a movie than 12 layers not rendered.
however I think your machine should be able to do it. try to make a bit of system maintenance.
Rafael
rafael make better the digestion(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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