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  • Droplets Surprise

    Posted by Hal Beery on September 6, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Why is compressor generating a droplet on my desktop instead of the mpg2 file I sent there?
    and how do I stop this action? I need that file NOW!!!!!!

    tnx,
    Hal
    MacPro Quad 2.8
    OSX 10.5.8
    fcp 6.03
    Compressor 3.03

    Thomas Berglund replied 15 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 14 Replies
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  • Shane Ross

    September 6, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Are you hitting SAVE AS or something else other than clicking on the SUBMIT button?

    Shane

    GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
    Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    Thanks, Shane for quick response!
    Not doing anything differently than I’ve ever done.
    Loading the job window in compressor with destination to desktop, best 90 minute video encoding from the preset list….. hit submit.

    the fcp timelline is defined by in and out. nothing different or special.

    also… yesterday I used compressor to encode some H.264 quick time clips for a client’s website. no problem.

    tnx again,
    Hal

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    Also.. in the same job I tossed in the Dolby audio encoding that’s listed next to the video mpg2. It went to the desktop just fine.

    Hal

  • Shane Ross

    September 6, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    Trash prefs. Download the Preference Manager from digitalrebellion.com and use it. Trashes Compressor prefs. But also saved compression presets you might have made.

    Shane

    GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
    Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    a href=’https://i1.creativecow.net/u/23743/cmprsr.droplet.jpg’>

    Here’s a pic of the droplet

    Hal

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    will do
    tnx
    hb

  • John Pale

    September 6, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    Cant see the whole file name, but remove any ‘questionable’ characters (punctuation, etc.).

    Compressor is very UNIX under the hood.

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Shane,
    Made two encodes after trashing compressor prefs with the digigorilla and no change in results.
    Trashed them again, restarted the computer, tried a short encode to test and still got the droplet, an example of which is attached above.

    any suggestions???

    thanks,
    Hal

  • Hal Beery

    September 6, 2010 at 11:08 pm

    I made all file names and sequences simple and clean. But still producing droplets. same same same same.

    thanks for the suggestion anyway.

    Hal

  • Shane Ross

    September 7, 2010 at 2:27 am

    I’m out of suggestions…sorry.

    Shane

    GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
    Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

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