[Becky Geear]

Thanks, Jason. I am on it!

Quick question though: I’m currently on Step 1 regarding Compressor. It’s been running for 30 minutes now with about a quarter of the video encoded according to the progress bar. Since I’m used to exporting a QT file and then going to Episode I’m unfamiliar with the process in Compressor. Should it be taking this long? (The video is 3:06). Just curious.

I’ll let you know what I find out from this and from Step 2 when I get there.

Thanks a ton for the help

Becky

[Becky Geear]

Aaah, gotcha, Jason.

Yeah there hasn’t been any finagling with any of the software or a system update. Just one day it was working, the next day I had issues.

I’ve been trying some more tests and seem to be having the same difficulties.

I just exported a movie out of FCP using Current Settings and it was once again corrupted. So in this particular case I’m having the issue before I can even get it to Compressor.

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[Becky Geear]

Hi Jeremy,

This is happening on all projects and I totally forgot to mention that I did end up trashing the audio and video render files. This was right before I ran Disk Utility, but the issues still kept happening….

Becky

[Becky Geear]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply! And I really appreciate the welcome to the forum. Can’t wait to learn as much as I can. And sounds like I should keep an eye out for this Dave LaRonde. 😉 hahaha

Ok so to answer your questions (and I apologize for leaving some of this info out)

1) The version of FCP is 6.0.6. And to be honest I don’t know if it’s an upgrade or a fresh install because the software was acquired before I started working here. However, if I were to hazard a guess I’d say it most likely would be a fresh install.

2) I’m running Mac OS X 10.5.8

3) I actually trashed the prefs both ways. I did it manually then after it going completely wonky on me I did it manually again. Yesterday I ran into a post with a link to Preference Manager and so I downloaded it and did it that way too. Same result.

4) I haven’t tried Disk Warrior, but I did run Disk Utility.

5) Hmmm…no I haven’t tried Compressor. But I can definitely give that a whirl and see if it might work.

I really appreciate your help. Thanks so much for any insight you can give!

p.s. I seem to have this other problem as well. I have so many issues trying to edit footage that comes out of our Canon 5D……. 😉 j/k

Thanks, again!

Becky