• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compression speed from FCP to Compressor

  Posted by George Sloan on January 28, 2011 at 12:10 am

  Hi Folks,

  Working on project with deadline for delivery on SD DVD to cable. 3o minutes/effects laden.

  I am now converted officially to ProRES.
  Its all good except for render times. I do need help on render times. Last night i did 2 tests. Both exporting directly from timeline to compressor. (did not capture with ProRes).

  One used QT settings the other Mpeg2 settings. The mpeg 2 worked well the qt settings did not.
  Plus the Mpeg2 was 1 hundred times faster compression.

  Today I am testing a 3rd method…MPEG (no conversion as instructed) to compressor where I used the
  Mpeg settings that worked so well last night. The render time is horrendous! So I guess I’ll go
  back to the strait to compressor method.

  Any comments for a relative newby?

  George
  GSP Productions
  sloanmotion.com

  George Sloan replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Ernie Santella

  January 28, 2011 at 12:19 am

  I’ve found it’s faster to make a QT Export by Reference file and take that into Compressor.
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  Jason Brown

  January 28, 2011 at 12:42 am

  If u use send to compressor, it does the same basic thing, although u don’t need to create an intermediate file.
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  Ernie Santella

  January 28, 2011 at 1:13 am

  My experience is that exporting a QT Reference file is definitely faster than exporting directly from FCP. Plus, it frees up FCP while Compressor is working. Exporting directly from FCP locks you out of doing anything in FCP until Compressor is finished.
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  Jason Brown

  January 28, 2011 at 1:22 am

  Fcp v7 updated this, you can send to compressor and continue to edit.
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  George Sloan

  January 28, 2011 at 2:02 am

  Thanks everybody but I was looking more to gain insight as to why the difference in compression times
  between the 3 tests I was talking about int the first post.
  George

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