Compressor Removing Frames from My Footage

[Jeremy Garchow]

That is truly the best way, Chris. If you UNcheck the make self contained box all that intermediate file is, is a series of pointers to your original media (it’s called a reference movie).

It’s how I do all of my exports. If your timeline is fully rendered it goes very fast.

Jeremy

[Allen Kaufman]

I know this is an old thread – but for the record, I’m experience the same problem with Compressor not faithfully exporting my entire program from the FCP timeline sequence.

It’s being truncated before the slow fade to black (and music fade) is finished fading to black.

I’ve tried adding black 1 sec slug at the end, designating In and Out points at the true beginning and end – and still Compressor is screwing it up.

Methinks its a bug – or lack of intelligence on Compressor’s part. Meaning: since the timeline is NTSC 720×480 24p fps – and that is an acceptable standard for DVD specs, then there’s no excuse for Compressor’s performance.

This is certainly not the only DVD asset I’ve rendered from FCP via Compressor. It has worked fine in past iterations. (FYI, I’m using the most recent Final Cut Studio 2 version to date).

Compressor has had some other issues since FCS2’s release, some have been resolved. This one is still a problem and such a quirk is way below par.

Allen Kaufman
Sunlight Digital
http://www.sunlightdigital.com

Allen Kaufman
Sunlight Digital – media with meaning
http://www.sunlightdigital.com