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Compressor Error : error opening source media file
Every time I setup a batch render in Compressor 2 (v. 2.1) and then save the batch to a file (just in case my computer crashes in the process, which it LOVES doing). But, when I try to reopen the saved batch, I get an error saying, “ALERT Error trying to open source media file.” It does this for each video file it is trying to open.
We’re using FCP 5.1 with an XSAN storage system.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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3 Replies
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Is that movie self contained or a reference? If it’s a reference, perhaps the reference files (such as render files) got changed/moved/deleted and the quicktime pointers are now busted. Try exporting a new reference movie or even a self contained (so it’s hard media) and try again.
If the movie is already self contained, it has to be something going on in your XSAN, but I don’t know anything about that.
Jeremy
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Try closing your sequence(s), then re-open and re-export to Compressor.
Brett
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We keep all of our commercials in our XSAN as 8-bit Uncompressed Quicktimes. As soon as a new spot comes in, we load it, then immediatly make an mpeg2 and aiff and mpeg1 files for DVDs. In FCP, I have a sequence template setup that I use to put exactly one second of black before and after the spot. I choose File > Export to Compressor to make those files.
Thanks,
Ryan Hendrickson
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
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