Compressor 2 problems?

[Shawn Hamer]

I find that exporting to Coompressor straight from FCP is slower than exporting a reference movie & running that resulting file through Compressor.

I have frequent problems with Compressor – here’s a reply I made recently to another post in this forum:

I see no one responded & I have no advice except to say keep retrying the batch – sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t.

This is a bug that’s been driving me nuts this year. In previous versions of Compressor, I NEVER had failed batches, but ever since the new version I have more failures than successes with it. It’s incredibly hard to run a studio with a program as flaky as Compressor has become! I’ve tried a number of different things – restarting, force rendering in the FCP timeline, re-exporting fresh movies for compression, exporting straight from FCP, self-contained movies, reference movies, running compressor with no other apps open, etc. Everytime I think I’ve found the secret, it just goes and fails on something else.

I really wish this topic was discussed more ’cause I know I’m not the only one that is frustrated by it!

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[Activeye]

I`m also finding problems with C2. Some presets work one day and then don`t. Am getting picture pull throughout the encode. Same footage encodes perfectly from FCP timeline via QT conversion.

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David