compressor broken

[Jeremy Garchow]

First, Quit everything so that only your finder is running.

Then in the finder hit command-shift-G and then type this in: /var/spool/qmaster

In the qmaster folder you will find a folder or two of very long file names. Delete them and emptyt the trash.

Then open up Compressor and clear your history and quit compressor.

Restart, then try again.

Jeremy

[Jason Levy]

Thanks once again, Jeremy.

[Jeremy Garchow]

No worries, Jason.

Glad it worked for you.

Jeremy

[David Bogie]

Jeremy, I bow to your knowledge of Compressor and Qmaster’s finer points. But, man, you gotta admit, that is one totally obscure thing to to know let alone how to fix.
I’ll bet that’s not in the manual!

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[david bogie] “But, man, you gotta admit, that is one totally obscure thing to to know let alone how to fix. “

It is strange. I picked it up from an Apple article on how to reinstall Compressor.

[Tom Early]

Or you can just do the equivalent of quitting the process in Task Manager in Windows, and quit the process in Activity Monitor. I believe it may be listed within there by user name, beyond that it should be obvious. Somewhat more user-friendly, no?

[Glen Pfeiffer]

Compressor does this to me like every time I send something… the fix works for a day or so it seems, any idea how I could make it permanent? I dont like having to shut down every time I send a batch…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Glen, are you sending refernce movies or going straight to compressor. If you aren’t send ref movies you should.

[Dallas Kruse]

What does this mean to “send ref movie to compressor”? I’ve been opening compressor and dragging my files in to transcode to ProRes 422. Am i doing this wrong?

Music Producer dabbling in Video.
FCP 7. CS3, 5. AE.
Canon T3i.

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s a reference movie, meaning do not click the make self contained box when exporting.