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Quick Compressor Question
I am currently exporting for FCP 6 via Compressor… it has been encoding for almost 4 hours and says:
Name: Sequence 1-V7-GE-2008-MPEG-2 5.0 Mbps 2-pass.m2v
Time Elapsed: 3:13:22
Time Remaining: Unknown
Percent Complete: 0
Status: Waitingwhile the frame count in FCP is still climbing and the processors are still churning or so it seems. Has my computer caught the hicups or is normal in using compressor straight out of FCP.
The activity monitor states CPU usage the same as 3 hours earlier when the percent completed was 11%. I will wait to morning to change anything, but I wanted to see if anyone has experienced this and/or if this was normal.
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5 Replies
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How long is your video and what type of video is it?
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
Also are you trying to do a segmented encode, (virtual cluster) I have no luck at all when export from FCP, and this is kind or what I see, the WATING thing. Open up Batch Monitor and turn down all the arrows and what do they say.
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What I normally watch in the Activity Monitor> Disk Activity, is the Data Read/sec, Data Written/sec. The data read/sec will tell you at which speed your footage is being processed.
For example if your footage is DV and you get a Data Read/sec of some 3,5MB/sec, that means that your movie is compressed in real time. If you get 500KB/sec, your movie will take some seven times the duration to be compressed. This you must multiply x2 because you chosen Double Pass.
If you have sent to Compressor from the FC time-line you know that everything must be rendered. And two times or Double Pass compression. Is the longest wawy but the one that yields better results.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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It was a 101 minute video, I was not segmenting it, I am not familiar how to do that. I got up this morning and it was no longer in the batch monitor window, it seems to have disappeared it isn’t in the active, completed or all sections, but the encoded file is in the directory where I had saved it. Hmmm…
The thing I didn’t understand about it saying “waiting” is that it was the only project in the que. Maybe its just a small issue with compressor calculating how many frames it has to render and when the video extends beyond a certain point it just lets the compressor keep running but doesn’t track it anymore. Thats just my theory, I would have to repeat this to find out more… which I don’t have time for right now.
Two more questions:
What way can I check and see if the video encoded properly?
Do you normally export as QT movie before using compressor to transcode to mpeg2? -
[Wes Koetje] “didn’t understand about it saying “waiting” is that it was the only project in the que.”
This have happened to me before. I find out that I have stopped some rendering and they remained in the “History”. Compressor kept rendering the same file overwriting the previous export. Clean the “History” window and finish the problem.[Wes Koetje] “Do you normally export as QT movie before using compressor to transcode to mpeg2?” If you have rendered already the movie with god quality, there is not much advantage in export from FC. If you have to re-render again twice 110 minutes can be a waist of time. Once you have all the movie rendered you an export a Self-contained or a Reference Movie from FC and bring thm to Compressor. You avoid any rendering all that Compressor will do is the MPG2 conversion.
Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
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