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Compressor interface SLOW
I have been happily using compressor for some time now. However today its excruciatingly slow. Every single mouse click prompts a spinning beach ball sometimes lasting over 30 seconds.
I’m running Compressor 3.5 on OS X 10.6.2 on an 8-Core mac pro with 6Gb of RAM.
Im trying to convert quicktimes approx. 45-55 min. long, in mp4 720×480, to uncompressed 8 bit sd or Apple ProRes. It gets bad after I apply a setting (preset or custom, same difference). I’ve restarted Compressor, but haven’t yet tried a reboot. I’ll try that next after the current batch is done. In the meantime, anyone ever experience anything similar?
thanks in advance
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6 Replies
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Try Trashing prefs and Repairing Permissions if you haven’t already tried that.
John
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When the beachball appears, open the Activity Monitor. Is Compressor saturating your processors?
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I have the same problem. No it is not saturating the processor.
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Its been a while since I had the problem, but trashing pref’s did the trick. I also recreated the custom Matrox settings I had; I suspected them of fouling things up. Perhaps they got corrupted? Anyway, its working now.
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ah yes…ye olde trashing the prefs trick…i don’t think i have ever done it with Compressor. my render has been terribly slow, says it’s 3 hours and 21 minutes into it and only half way done! would the vote here be to dump out of the render, trash prefs, and begin the render again? i wonder if the new render would be quicker than another 3 hours from this point???
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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i bit the bullet and stopped it. trashed only the “compressor” pref, not the “CompressorSharedService” one, and so far it looks like this total render will be about 45 minutes, barely 1.5 times real time.
: )
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
__________________________FCS3
2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)
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