Problems with FCP 6 and compressor

[Pedro Casais]

Also, the quicktime player version is 7.5

[Nathan Wadding]

Are you sending to compressor directly from the timeline? If you are it often times locks up FCP. FCP will come back to a functioning state once you quit compressor, or quit the compression from the batch monitor, or your compression has completed. Take note while the file is compressing do you get a box in FCP the states that it is processing frames?

Are you compressions completing from compressor?

[Pedro Casais]

Thanks Nathan,

I am sending it directly from the timeline. And what I noticed is that the processing frame box comes up sometimes but very quickly an error will end the process and fcp will quit out. The seq I’m trying to export is a not rendered .avi files seq,
could this be the problem? While fcp is trying to render and export the sequence it gets lost in translation?

best,
Pc

[Nathan Wadding]

Unrendered AVI’s what are your sequence settings? AVIs make my system yell at me.

Can you try another timeline source to confirm that FCP and compressor are working properly? Open a new project and use some footage in a QT codec.
If the above works then
Pull in 10 sec of the AVI in a TL. Render it. send it to compressor and see if that will do it.

[Pedro Casais]

Yes, at first I didn’t even know that avi files were an issue for fcp, since I could load them into the viewer monitor and play them just fine. Then I created the seq was another thing, I noticed that even if I tried to match the clip properties to the seq, it will still need to be rendered, but so far the fcp holds steady through the process.

What I now did: I broke the seq in 4 parts and so far is exporting the first part with no problems. Thank you, maybe this will do. I have one more question but I’ll post it on a new subject since is something new.

best,
PC

[Alexander Kallas]

Is your media on the boot drive? That’s a no no.

Cheers
Alexander

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Pedro,
The AVI may not be the problem, but sure that doesn’t helps.
Try exporting a Self-contained movie and import that to Compressor.
A clean FC suit would also helps.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Pedro Casais]

Alexander, the media is on a external drive. I ended up being successful with this as Rafael mention, by exporting the sequences in small pieces. My guess is that because it was a 5 hour long sequences full of AVI unrendered clips, the computer had to work very hard to do all the processing at once.

Thanks for all the help.
PC

[Monroe Mann]

I have a bunch of short films that I am trying to assemble onto one timeline of 70 minutes in length.

For some reason, compressor starts ‘processing frames’, counting up from 1 to well into the thousands.

But then it just starts again at 1 again. It becomes an endless loop. So the job never finishes.

Do you know why this is happening?

Is there another way to export the 70-minute timeline? I know how to use ‘export using quicktime conversion’, but it always makes the files HUGE in size. My short 5-minute films end up being 500MB or more. So gosh, how long would this 70-minute file be if I export it using ‘quicktime conversion’—more than 6GB? If so, is it possible to put that file on a DVD, or is that too big?

Thanks so much!
-Monroe