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  • Where is Compressor

    Posted by Babcut on July 29, 2005 at 10:46 am

    Anybody with this one? I cannot export a decent movie for my client without Compressor.
    I have the application on my hard drive, but it doesn’t open and is greyed-out when I choose
    export. Using Quicktime Conversion’s settings look terrible. I need the MPEG-2 file option.

    Bret Williams replied 20 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Tom Wolsky

    July 29, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    Does Compressor launch by itself? Can you export a QuickTime Movie and bring that into Compressor?

  • Kate Marquis

    July 29, 2005 at 2:25 pm

    Make sure you export from your Timline.
    If you export from the Viewer window, it won’t allow you to export through Compressor.
    -kate

  • Babcut

    July 29, 2005 at 2:29 pm

    No I can’t launch Compressor at all, even at the finder level. I was hoping to cusom install just
    Compressor from the FCP software, but I don’t think I can. And I’m too superstitious to reload
    the whole program in the middle of a job if I don’t absolutely have to.

  • Tom Wolsky

    July 29, 2005 at 3:06 pm

    If you need MPEG-2 you’re not going to have a choice except a third party encoder.

  • Babcut

    July 29, 2005 at 3:20 pm

    I know its just that I have compressor as a program on my computer it just won’t launch.
    I suppose I will have to figure out a way to reload that software.

  • Chris Poisson

    July 29, 2005 at 4:22 pm

    Barbara,

    Can you export to Compressor directly from an FCP sequence? If not, repair permissons, trash Compressor prefs and restart.

  • Bret Williams

    July 29, 2005 at 5:53 pm

    Go to Apple and see if you can find the latest compressor update and run it again. Or check your software update.

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