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fcp crashing whilst using compressor
hello all,
when i open compressor, for some reason final cut pro crashes (no error message it just freezes up), and doesn’t respond. i was wandering if anyone else has or has had this problem and knew a way of overcoming it. its starting to become a little annoying, because i am having to make native quicktimes of everything and use compressor seperate to fcp.
Many Thanks in Advance, 😀
processor 4X2.5 GHz Power PC G5
OSX v 10.4.10FCP 5.1.4
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but that’s normal behavior if you’re exporting to compressor. FCP is unuseable until compressor is finished. Most likely because it’s utilizing the current render files and if you were to keep editing, then caches and renders may change or be deleted. As well, it’s supposed to automatically change compression settings when going in/out of transitions and add compression marks at cut points and all that kinda stuff. But of course exporting directly to compressor takes about 10 years longer and you can’t use FCP while you’re doing it, so I do as you said, and I export a self contained QT, and then use that in compressor and keep on editing.
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sorry yeah, maybe i should have been a little more clear. compressor also crashes, everything freezes. i know that making QTs is better but in this case it would take me ages to do that as i am compressing 22 15minute long video for a dvd, making QTs would take forever.
another guy next to me, has exactly the same set up and his never crashes, i’ve tried trashing prefrences, but this doesn’t help.
any ideas?
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Are you doing them all at once or one at a time. I’m thinking RAM could easily be an issue.
You can batch export all your sequences as qt reference movies (not self contained) and that shouldn’t take too long. You could get a few compressing, and since you’d have FCP available, you could then batch export the rest at the same time. Once you’ve got them all exported and ready to go, you can quit FCP, freeing up more RAM.
Usually before a big endeavor like this I’d reboot the system as well, but since you’ve been freezing up apps I assume you’ve been doing that.
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Hmmm, I’m having the same problem. At least it seems like the same problem. I can’t export to compressor without FCP giving me the spinning beach ball. This is before submitting the batch, so no encoding is happening yet. Compressor still seems responsive, but FCP is frozen solid.
I can still add the one timeline to compressor and submit it for encoding, but I cannot go back to FCP to send another timeline to Compressor. So, easily submitting multiple sequences to compressor for a batch is not easy.
If I click around on the different windows in Compressor and then back on FCP I can get FCP to snap out of it, but then trying to export another sequnce to Compressor creates a new tab or job in Compressor.
I just want to be able to export several sequences to compressor, and submit them all as a single batch for encoding. In Compressor 1 & 2 I’d simply select all of the sequences once in Compressor and apply the same preset to them. Easy. Now Compressor 3 is giving me grief.
I’m on a Mac Pro that just arrived a week ago so it’s a clean install. I’ve got 5GB of RAM. I had exactly the same problem on my dual G5 with 4 GB of RAM before I upgraded to the Mac Pro. I’m running the recently updated versions of all programs in the Studio package. I installed everything on July 3rd so it’s all current.
Anyone else have the same problem?
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USACurrently producing these popular podcasts:
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yup yup thats the problem.
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Same problem, somewhat intermittent, works sometimes, crashes on others.
Exporting a sequence from fcp with ins & out seemed to crash FCP.
But i just did one where i put ins & out and selected all the clips inbetween my ins and out hit apple+r (render) and it looks like its working now fine.Running
Mac Pro 2.66
3 GB Ram
Compressor 3.0.1
FCP 6.0.1and editing HD and SD in an SD timeline.
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Have you tried closing the preview window in compressor?
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no i haven’t tried that, but i shall give it a go. in the end i just had to encode each video seprately, but i shall that in the future.
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Hey! That closing the Preview window does the trick for me (at least when only sending one sequence over to compressor.
So far, so good!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USACurrently producing these popular podcasts:
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aaaahhhhh nice. thanks guys i shall try that, fingers crossed!
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