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  • Compressor Error -1

    Posted by Ron Cole on September 1, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    I have encoded seven sequences with the Blu-ray Encoding H264 however I have one that continues to fail. Compressor gives me an Error -1 what ever that means.

    I have tried sending it directly from FCP and exporting a reference movie but have the same result.

    I have also closed all of the applications and restarted the system – still the same result.

    Does anyone know what this error means and how to make the sequence encode correctly?

    Thanks, Ron

    Ron Cole replied 15 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Ron Cole

    September 1, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    What I did to finally fix it was to change the settings completely on export. The original file was Pro Res Proxy at 1920 x 1080 30fps. I tried to compress it as a reference file then a self contained file with the current settings and then re-compress all frames, self contained with current settings – the Compressor failed everything with the Error -1.

    Then I changed the settings to Pro Res HQ 1920 x 1080 30P 29.97fps, re-compress all frames, make a self contained movie. Now with these parameters Compressor is working perfectly.

    Seems like there could be a bug in the Pro Res frame rate within Compressor… anyway its working.

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