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compressor 3.5.1 drags FCP to a crawl? really?
Upgraded to latest FCP as the “send to compressor and forget” feature is just what I need, but I have what Steve Jobs calls a world of pain.
1. Sending HDV timelines to comprssor using the file format that Vimeo require – basically mp4 at 1280 x 720 (yup HDV means long gops, no choice thats what i shoot and too late to try playing with Pro Res ingests on the fly etc etc) – yet incredibly about 17 seconds takes 17 minutes to render out on my machine?? Excuse me? I have 30 minutes of several dozen film tutorials to send ut on just one time line of several
is this really what to expect? (See sig spec below)
2. It gets worse | When I send it to Compressor- i get spinning beach balls in FCP for 90% of the time (then a brief window to do very little mouse clicking etc) Im trying to DO things in FCP (until I pause jobs and then of course FCP is willing to talk to me again)
What happened to multi threading that I paid for with the upgrade? Do I have to do something else? (I know Open CL is years away but at least I thought Id start to use the other sleeping cores on this”workstation”
Anyone else get this issue?
thanks Folks
common-sound-problems.mp4
Mac Pro Xeon 8 Core | 2.6 Ghz | 11G RAM 6TB 7200 rpm via Firewire 800 | Shooting HDV 1080i on Canon Xl H1 x2
Snow Leopard | FCP 7.0.1
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>What happened to multi threading that I paid for with the upgrade?
I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any kind of “multi-threading” feature added to FCP3.
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HDV does take forever. Every frame has to be rendered in most situations.
Don’t use “Send to Compressor”. Make a Quicktime reference movie for each of your sequences, launch Compressor, drag your QT reference movies into Compressor, and let Compressor work in the BG. You can cue up as many movies as you want and go to bed for the night if you want.
If you use “Send to Compressor” from FCP you will be locked out of using FCP until the render is done. By using a reference movie you can continue to work in FCP.
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If you want faster encode times, look into Matrox Compress HD (h.264) and/or Episode (pro)
HDV certainly does have its disadvantages.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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If you have a Mac Pro you can set up Compressor to use all eight processors. This will GREATLY reduce render times. See this article here:
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