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Compressor on MacBook Pro
I’ve used Compressor on short form projects at work on a quad G5, but this is my first time with a long form project on a 17″ MacBook Pro core 2 duo. The following is sort of two questions:
The sequence is made up entirely of one imported 90 min. MPEG 4 wmv audio and video file with dimensions of 368×208 and I want to burn a DVD. Although I set up the sequence to match the wmv file’s dimensions, it still requires a render, which I did not do. I sent the timeline to Compressor about 7 hours ago using 90 minute 16×9 Best setting, with 2 pass vbr. Batch Monitor showed the estimated time to export would be 8 hours. However it now reports 52% complete with another 19 hours remaining.
My questions are: does this sound right? And more importantly, will this cause a problem for the MBP since it does get pretty warm and I certainly don’t want to fry it just for a test. In the meantime I turned the brightness down to black when I began the export 8 hours ago, and I’ve elevated the laptop so there’s airflow underneath.
I know eyes and ears will be glued to the NAB rollout, but any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Les Kaye -
3 Replies
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The MBP will shut itself down if it gets to hot so that it wont fry itself.
Those times do sound like they could be accurate. Especially because you are going from a WMV file and because of the small dimensions of the file. It has to convert it and resize it.
Just so you know if your source is 368×208 your DVD is going to look HORRIBLE.
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Hey Les!!! Good to see you’re using your Macbook Pro for something more than watching girls make out on youtube…
You may find as I have that the render time remaining as displayed by Compressor is simply way off, especially what it shows after 50% is already done. I don’t what factors it uses to do its countdown, but it probaly need to be revisited or revised by the Apple engineers.
DRW
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Often Compressor will estimate a time, and if it compresses the audio first, it gets to 50% before deciding it wants to take a whole lot longer.
Maybe watching women make out on YouTube might be more fun…
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