Jane Williams
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Okay got it. When I started having exporting issues, I realized I should have converted everything into the same format in the first place, before importing the videos into FCP, but it’s too late now – I’m working with 80GB of material and I would have to convert almost everything, which would take forever. Oh well, next time I’ll know better! 😀
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Yeah I usually do that too, but this project contains footage from a lot of different cameras and the dissolves etc. look terrible when I try to export it with current settings. Well, hopefully it will work with Prores, I’ll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks a lot for your advice, I appreciate it!
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Well I just read that you can only use virtual clusters if you export a reference movie from FCP first and open that in Compressor. Is that really true? I just tried it and it boosted the CPU up to 150%, which should be a good sign. I’m just wondering because I usually choose “Send to Compressor” in FCP, because my test exports so far showed a decrease in quality that way – I could especially see it during fade ins and outs of titles. However, I just re-rendered the sequence changing the Quicktime Video Settings from H.264 compression to Prores422 in FCP, and it looks much better now. Could that be the solution after all?! 😀
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Thank you very much for the reply. It didn’t work with Quickcluster with Services before, BUT I downloaded an application called Compressor Repair and it immediately saved the problem. It lead to another one though… even though I activated both instances, compression seems as slow as before, and it seems strange to me that when I look at the Activity Monitor, the CPU barely goes over 70-75%. Why is that? I included a screenshot of my Activity monitor.
When I submitted the video in Compressor, I chose the cluster that I set to “2 Instances” in Apple Qmaster before, so that should be fine. Is there anything else I need to change in the Compressor preferences? I don’t understand why this isn’t working. Thanks again!
