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Compressor takes FOREVER….sometimes
Hi folks!
Another quick question in which I get to show my ignorance.
I’m sending videos from FCP straight into Compressor. I’ve created a custom template that allows me to take 1080p24 ProRes LT into H.264 1080p29.97. I sent two clips, both about 7 minutes long into Compressor using the same algorithm.
The first clip took about 25-30 minutes to render. The second has been sitting here for hours at about the 15% mark. It shows 60 hours remaining. I’ve restarted both programs, restarted the machine, tried different codecs, etc. Nothing will speed this up. I can’t imagine 60 hours is the render time for a 7 minute clip!
Has anyone else had this problem? I’ve been experiencing this for about a week now.
I’m running a 15″ i7 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM. Videos are stored on an external FW800 hard drive.
Thanks in advance!!
Jeremy -
2 Replies
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A couple of things that can definitely help speed up compressor.
[Jeremy Cucco] “I’m sending videos from FCP straight into Compressor.”
That is definitely a much slower method. Export a reference movie and then bring that into compressor.
Also set yourself up a virtual cluster using qmaster this will allow compressor to take advantage of ALL cores of your processor.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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Frame rate conversions in combination with H264 on the Best settings may be your problem.
Have you chosen BEST settings for all?Try to go from ProRes to ProRes with just the frame rate conversion.
Also test these kind of custom templates first with small 20 sec clips.And ofcourse the previous tips.
Send to Compressor is terrible and clustering on multicore machines is great.
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