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Io and compressor
Tried using compressor on 8 bit and 10 bit timelines and it repeatedly fails. It starts to do the audio but after 5 or 6 seconds it fails.
Tried a dv timeline with material input thru firewire and not the Io and everthing works fine. All the material is on a Huge 800 Media vault.
Can the Io be the problem? Using FCP 4.5 Thanks for any help Harry K. -
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Through tons of tests we have made, we have found out that the best solution is
to create reference movies and not to export to Compressor via FCP.Create a reference movie in a complete different drive/partition send that to
Compressor. Select the destination (in Compressor) to another drive/partition.
So preety much you a drive/partition for capture, another for the reference movie,
and another one for the final encoded file. Total of 3.Since we started doing this a few years ago, we have not had one single issue
with FCP and/or Compressor.Stuart C Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
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To see if the io is the problem, why don’t you disconnect the io (safely) before encoding. Also, you say it fails on audio encoding, have you mixed down (or rendered) everything? Maybe it’s getting choked on an audio fade or dissolve. Also, try encoding just the video and not the audio and see how that goes. I have encoded countless dvds with io and compressor without issue. Stuart is right, exporting a reference movie out of FCP works much better than exporting straight from FCP into compressor. I also do what he does concerning the partitions, but I have my reference movie and encoded files on the same disk, and my media on my media array (Stuart separates the ref export, the media, AND the encoded files) . I keep the media & exports/encodes separate with the exports/encodes on the same disk.
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