compressor woes

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compressor woes

Posted by John Crossfield on June 6, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Hi, apologies if this is posted in the wrong place. I looked for a ‘compressor forum’ but couldn’t spot it. Back to work after a month away with a deadline of tues to get the final edit out in dvd form and compressor fails on all jobs, even the very short, simple ones. Compressing from .mov file as exported from FCP. I get the message ‘unknown time remaining’

on a mac octo with 8gb of ram.

can’t work it out, any ideas?

can some preferences etc be trashed or shall I reinstall compressor completely?

thanks in advance
John

Roger Lansing replied 16 years, 11 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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Ken Jones
June 6, 2009 at 9:21 pm

A few months ago I had a similar thing happen to me where Compressor refused to work. I looked around the web and found this: https://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2008/01/11/compressor-hatred-resolved/

It fixed the problem.
John Fishback
June 6, 2009 at 11:20 pm

Here’s another resource: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

And some info from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1888?viewlocale=en_US

John

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Sam Roberts
June 7, 2009 at 1:36 am

Are you trying to do a downconvert from HD to SD for the DVD burn?
John Crossfield
June 7, 2009 at 12:14 pm

No, all straight forward sd footage though it is a 12gb .mov file!!

john
Michael Sacci
June 7, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Have you reinstalled compressor? If you do make sure you follow the apple article that was linked to by John Fishback.
Roger Lansing
June 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm

John,

Not sure if you are having the same weird issues that I did with Compressor a few weeks ago, but it was acting very strange for me. After some long frustrating evenings of trying to make it work, I finally remembered the old stand=by “trash the preferences.” I did that, restarted the machine and Compressor acted like it was my best friend once again. Hope that this helps or that you found another solution.

Roger C. Lansing

Multi-Media Production Coordinator
National Baseball Hall of Fame

Cooperstown, NY

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