Export Using Compressor / Crashes once process starts

[Michael Sacci]

Does it crash if you import a movie straight into Compressor?

But the list of things to try is going to be to clear the plist files for FCP and Compressor, clear the logs from Qmaster (it maybe holding on to something from an old job.)

Here is a apple doc to guide you
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1888?viewlocale=en_US

[Jim Eckes]

No it doesn’t crash when I import directly into Compressor. I’d export an
FCP quicktime file and just bypass the whole “Export to Compressor” thing, but it’s a 1 1/2 hour program which would take some time and I’d just like to break the code on this for future use.
I’ll check out your link though, thanks!

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.6

[Michael Sacci]

FWIW – I’m maybe one of the few fans of Exporting to Compressor, but it is by no means faster. It is almost always faster (and most of the time a lot faster) to export a self contained QT and then bring that into Compressor. For curtain things the quality is better going from the FCP sequence but you pay the price in time.

When you send a video from FCP it actually uncompresses each individual frame to a 4:4:4 frame as sends it from encoding. This is why going from a HDV sequence via Export to Compressor for m2v encode will give you a much better result. IMO

[Jim Eckes]

I finally got it to export to compressor, not sure what I did. None the less, it’s been going for over 2 hours (it’s a 1 1/2 hour clip). I’m finding it’s much quicker to export a qt and drop it into compressor directly.
Since this is a window dub for a client, I’m not concerned about quality.
I was hoping to avoid qt export time and file size on the drive, but it looks like it’s not gonna go that way.

Thanks,

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.6

[Dan Monro]

I’ve had jobs fail when using droplets and I have to reset the background process in compressor;

“Compressor / Reset Background Processing”.

After that they work fine. Michael, think that could it be related to Jim’s problem?

Dan Monro
FCP, Avid, AfterFX, Atlanta
MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB ram
Mac OS X 10.5.8
GeForce 8600M GT Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 Quicktime 7.6.4
– OR –
2 x 3.2 Quad Xeon; 16 GB ram
Mac OS X 10.5.8
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Final Cut Pro 7 Quicktime 7.6.4