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Compressor fails to merge files after finishing render
Hi all!
I’m posting under FCP, since there was no dedicated forum for Compressor.
I’m running Compressor 3.5.2 on an 8 core Mac Pro. 6GB RAM, OSX 10.5.8. I have a 8TB RAID with almost 800GB free, and I’ve set QMaster to use the raid as it’s scratch drive instead of the boot drive.
I’ve got an 80 min 1080/24fps ProRes file that I’m trying to convert to 29.97 fps (since I’m sure many of you will find this curious, the reason I’m going to 1080/29.97 is that the end credits look like garbage when I render them from 24 to 29.97, so I want to make the main program 29.97, and then go back into FCP and drop in a new credits sequence that I’ve created in AE at 30fps native, once that’s done all in HD, I want to render the entire piece down to NTSC 29.97 for my DVD)
Anyways, I take my 1080/24p ProRes file and bring it into compressor and it takes about 2 hours to render, gets to the point of “0:00:00 remaining” where it has created 16 file segments, and then just sits there for many hours saying “Processing: Merging Distributed Quicktime segments”
This is the 2nd time I’ve tried this – In between I also ran the Compressor Repair app, threw out QT prefs, ran AppleJack and swung a dead chicken over my head while reciting Shakespeare.
Any advice?
Thanks!
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2 Replies
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[AJ Epstein] “I have a 8TB RAID with almost 800GB free,”
Not sure if this is the cause, but you want to ALWAYS leave 10% of any hard drive free preferably 20%
If you have almost800GB free on a 8TB drive then you have less then 10% free.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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Go into the QMaster Preference Pane and select the Advanced tab (after authenticating).
Make sure your Cluster Storage is on an accessible volume…or just reset it, even if you know the volume is accessible.
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