ROCKET SCIENCE? It is NOT!

[Stuart Simpson]

Have you considered LTO for your archive? It’s more cost-effective in the long run, and I trust LTO waaaaaay more as a long term storage solution than HD’s. 800 GB for £30 a go!

-Simmie
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[Bill Dewald]

How’s the drive formatted? If its not OSX, you might run into the 2GB limit….

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Baz Leffler] “But what a good idea I thought of, maybe I should be writing software…. “

Well, here’s the deal, Baz. You said you were using 8 Cores, which leads me to believe you have a virtual cluster setup in Compressor?

If you open the Batch Monitor while compressing and drill down, you will notice that your movie is broken up in to segments. That is how the virtual cluster works. It breaks up the video and audio and processes it all separately. While it’s doing that, it really doesn’t know how big the file is going to be as it is processing a Variable Bit Rate codec (ProRes) and since it doesn’t know what the final file size is going to be, it therefore can’t rightfully tell Compressor to stop as it simply doesn’t know that the file its processing won’t fit on the alloted free space of your hard drive. Also, since your file is now broken up into all these different segments with different start and stop points, and there’s no index to tell quicktime or the OS what is what, you really don’t have a file, or at least a file that anything can understand very well. That’s why when you stop the process, Compressor doesn’t have anything to show for it, because all it is a jumble of media that doesn’t make much sense.

Jeremy