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Compressor won´t add to queue
I get this strange error message when submitting files in Compressor:
“Unable to submit to queue. Please restrt your computer or verify your Compressor instllation is correct.”
This appeared some days ago. After using “FCP Remover” I have now been through the tedious work of re-installing Final Cut Studio from version 1 to 2.
I even tried to use a newly installed version on an external start disk, and that worked. But on the computors start disk, the same message shows its ugly face again.
What should I do? What does this “verify your Compressor installation is correct” really mean?
Sverker Hahn, Stockholm
Slower is better!
Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
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It means that you have a corrupt install…
If it were me I wipe out your startup disk and install the whole thing cleanly. Back up first as this will erase your startup disk of course.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX Cinema Displays
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Puuh …
So the re-intall of FCS was not enough. Do you mean FCS and Mac OS X? Nothing more? So I can just copy back all other programs and all user files? Takes some time …
By the the way, seems like Compressor works allright when it works on its own, and gives this problem only when I send FCP-sequences to Compressor.
Thanks. I´ll see when I do it correctly.
Sverker Hahn, Stockholm
Slower is better!
Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″ -
It’s sort of a sledge hammer approach. But it always works when something isn’t working that should, and the system’s already been reinstalled and upgraded from FCP 2 to 3 or say from Tiger to Leopard. If you’ve not rebuilt a startup disk in a while, it’s time anyway I’d suggest.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX Cinema Displays
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Probably all you needed to do was eliminate and then reinstall Qmaster.
I do not know why.
It seems to be a weird issue.
I do not want to get into a shouting match with anyone around here, least of all better qualified experts like Jerry, but I do not subscribe to nor do I even support at all the idea that significant FCP upgrades and system upgrades require or even necessarily benefit from an erase and rebuild, what I call the “scorcehd earth approach to upgrading.”I have been running my suite of a dozen or more Macs for many years (two run FCS3, the others are CS5) and have only ever once performed a total rebuild on one machine due to a drive failure. I think it is a waste of time and effort with questionable benefits resulting from the investment of time and effort. But it seems to be prescribed as a cure for everything.
bogiesan
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No, I have never reinstalled the system. My son tells me that he reinstalls Windows now and then. Yes, it seems to be a waste of time. But this time I may need to do it
I tried to eliminate and reinstall Compressor, without success.
BTW, I have had problems with Compressor for a long time, it cannot create reference files. Exept that it does now and then, for no apparent reason.
Sverker Hahn, Stockholm
Slower is better!
Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″
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