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Activity Forums Compression Techniques Apple Compressor 3 “unknown time remaining” WHY!??!

  • Brandon Ivey

    October 16, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Well, I cant find var/spool/Qmaster on my Mac and I used teh Compressor repair and sit still did not work. I have a batch that I started this morning that started working fine, then crashed. Since then, it wont run. It just sits there saying “unknown time remaining”. The bar doesn’t move or anything.

  • Brandon Ivey

    October 16, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Well, I cant find var/spool/Qmaster on my Mac and I used teh Compressor repair and sit still did not work. I have a batch that I started this morning that started working fine, then crashed. Since then, it wont run. It just sits there saying “unknown time remaining”. The bar doesn’t move or anything.

  • Brandon Ivey

    October 16, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Wait, it just started. So we will see….

  • Brandon Ivey

    October 16, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    Well, now it shows 17 seconds and is moving way too fast for 50+ 90 sec videos

  • Nathan Mobley

    December 18, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    It happened to me after I tried to share my internet connection with another mac on our network. Once I disable internet sharing, it worked just fine.

  • Andre Oziol

    December 27, 2009 at 7:28 am

    thank you so much nathan i tried all the other fixes and none of them helped and am so releived that this one worked. thanks. If you have tried all the rest try what nathan said and turn off computer internet sharing in the system preferences internet settings.

  • Heath Robinson

    January 7, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    You are my new favorite person. Batch monitor trick works wonders.

    “I find you lack of backwards compatibility disturbing”

  • Paco Sweetman

    February 8, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    [ Here’s a solution I found on the Apple support site…and it works.

    1. In Finder select go, go to folder
    2. Enter: var/spool/qmaster
    3. This will find a folder (oddly named with numeral & text). Trash the folders you see INside this folder (mine were called Shared & Jobs
    4. In compressor, select the menu item Compressor/reset Background Processing.

    John.]

    This worked for me, plus I restart the computer afterwards. Running a Quadcore MacPro 2.66 Ghz. With FCP 7.1 and Compressor 3.5.1 (which I think caused the problem…)

  • Brandon Ivey

    February 8, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Im Running SL 10.6.2 with FCS 6, and that folder could not be found. I had a fix for this before, but it came back. I even tried the Compressor repair tool, but that didnt work either.

  • Eric Boucher

    August 13, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    This info right here is a LIFE SAVER it really works!! well for me it did.

    THANK YOU!

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