compressor making extra, useless files

[Jeremy Garchow]

What format is your destination hard drive? Fat32?

[Steve Ascher]

its a FW 800 journaled HFS+ drive from OWC. I didn’t reformat it when we got it so I guess it’s FAT 32…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Open disk utility and check. It will tell you the format towards the bottom of the window.

[Steve Ascher]

format on disk utility says Mac Os extended (journaled). Apple partition map.

the files compressed fine without q-master, and q-master worked fine for mpeg 2 transcode earlier in the day.

thanks

[Walter Soyka]

[Steve A] “Is this a result of q master somehow dividing the job up? we have no problem using the local cluster to make DVDs or other encodes.”

Yes, Qmaster creates numbered files exactly like these when it segments a job.

These temporary files are supposed to be created in the Qmaster storage location, though, not the destination folder. The final step is supposed to be stitching them back together into one file in the destination.

Did it throw any errors in Batch Monitor?

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[Steve Ascher]

first noticed it when trying to encode a portion of a reference QT, using in and out marks in the compressor preview window. thought it might be related to that, so then tried transcoding an entire QT without marking ins and outs. finally gave up using Q master and it worked fine.

didn’t notice it in batch monitor, just noticed all those files accumulating in the source folder, and that they remained there after encode was done. All were small and on quick check none contained both audio and video for the entire section.

[Jeremy Garchow]

What Walter says is correct. Are you sure the job was done?

And are you using multiple machines or just a virtual cluster?