• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor – Splitting up clip into multiple clips?

  Posted by Scott Robinson on November 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm

  Hello all

  I hope that I could ask about Compressor on this forum.
  Compressor is taking a single clip and Splitting up the clip into multiple clips all limited to 16 seconds?

  I am processing a DV NTSC 720×480 clip into a uncompressed 8-bit output. I am using the cluster master with 7 instances.

  Any thoughts?

  John Fishback replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  John Pale

  November 26, 2009 at 7:24 pm

  This is normal when using miultiple instances (cluster). That’s how it achieves the blazing speed. The final product will be 1 clip.
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  Scott Robinson

  November 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm

  I thought that was it… but it seems that even after the job is done it is hanging with 00:00 time left and not merging them into one?

  Could I also indulge you in asking about the geometry setting versus the Filter setting for letterboxing.

  I want to take 16:9 into a 4:3 space and wondering about when or why use the padding settings in the geometry over the letterbox settings in Filters? Are they the same thing?

  thanks everyone!
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  John Pale

  November 26, 2009 at 9:17 pm

  You can use the filter, if you find it easier, but the Geometry pane will achieve the same thing. The Geometry pane is more customizable and can do much more than the letterbox filter.

  As far as the hangup, I can’t really say. That would seem to indicate a problem with your system or drives.
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  Scott Robinson

  November 26, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  thanks.

  I will try re-clustering the qmaster and hope that works.
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  Scott Robinson

  November 27, 2009 at 12:59 am

  No luck in trashing my qmaster preferences and the /var/spool cache.

  I have and error in the qmaster log that reads :

  “mrk” sub=”error” what=”get-log” avail=”false” msg=”Not logging to file.”

  Anyone have any ideas about this issue?

  I have the cluster at 4 on a Quad core (8 core) and it is barely using any moving. The activity monitor shows hardly any movement on the cores but they are all responding. It will not re-merge the files multiple files the cores create into one video file.

  thanks
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  John Fishback

  November 27, 2009 at 5:14 pm

  Here are two posts re Compressor repair that might help.

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

  https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1888?viewlocale=en_US

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