[Lawrence Eaton]

FCPX opened up, eventually. However, I now have a ‘no entry’ symbol over anything in the storyline, audio, compound clips, events etc.

I have relinked the events; relinked the project even checked the Modify Event References to make sure they are all pointed in the right direction.

No joy.

Anyone, please?

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Philip,
You are correct and it frustrates me daily that I cannot select multiple projects and just export them out or send to compressor.
You can export out from FCP in the native mode or in any other preset that is delivered with FCPX.
People’s ideas about Compressor are going to be all over the shop. Mine? I like Compressor and when you have a virtual cluster set up, the speed in which Compressor can give you multiple outputs or daily chained to multiple formats has never ceased to make me smile and caused me to run 5miles faster – something I started doing back in Compressor 3 while waiting for my encoding to finish.

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Adam, I know what you mean. I can beat your artifacting and raise you quite a few. I simply wait a couple of mins and then carry on and the UI seems to settle down.

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Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Shea,
I’ve found through painful experience, so far, that it is ‘desirous’ to export at full res from FCPX and then let Compressor do its thing.
On a recent project I became all tied up using the “Send to Compressor” option that seemingly tied up my machine for far too long compared to a simple Cmd+E.
Also, “Export using Compressor settings” will do the business but I find it slower.
At the end of the day, CMD+E; grab a cup of tea and then start on your next project while Compressor knocks your file into shape.

Regards,

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

David,
Has the same problem until I deleted my prefs. Andy is bang on there.

Thankfully they aren’t prerogatives!

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

I may not have had the exact issue with running between two machines but I have had the instance where I’ve had to enter in my password to the extent that my verbal language has tainted the air, somewhat.

Here’s my solution that after many clicks of here there and everything seemed to work.

1. trash the contents of the ‘STORAGE” folder in Library>Application support>Apple Qmaster>Storage.

2. Just for the giggles, open System Preferences>Apple Qmaster (32-bit) – make sure you’ve clicked on the RESET SERVICES and stopped the sharing.

3. Click the lock icon.

4. Get out of Qmaster as fast as you can :).

Back to Compressor 4

5. Open it up (probably have to use your password)

6. Click on AppleQmaster pulldown.

7. Open “SHARE THIS COMPUTER”.

8. (In my case) uncheck the “Require these services to only be used in managed clusters” (see attached)

9. Uncheck the “Include unmanaged services from other computers” (This one may be optional in your case, but give it a try – nothing to lose at this point?)

9a. I left the ‘Advanced’ tab alone in this case, IOW all default settings.

10. Restart Compressor and see what happens?

In my case, running a QuickCluster, I was not asked for a password again and now have, thankfully, access to my virtual cluster to crank out work.

I’m hoping that this may either a) provide a solution or b) put you on the path to gain one.

Regards,

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Brian,
It’s that “Alien Tech” thingie… 🙂

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

I’d agree with you Bill. It’s more of a change in terminology and methodology that comes with FCPX. I’m discovering new and wonderful things with the “Modify Event References” in the last 24 hrs that have gone a long way in restoring my belief that someone somewhere was thinking of mere mortals like myself.

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Stephen,

the optical flow solution is something which I can’t say that I’ve explored before but from what you write and from what I’ve read, since, this may be a viable solution. At the mo, I’m hellbent on getting the goods out the door but I will come back to this option, shortly.

Many thanks,

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Jeremy,

I believe that this is going to be the most expedient, currently. It’s a single frame and from what I can tell, if I save the frame previous to the white one, and then import that and composite it over the a) white out section or B) (better?) cut out the frame as you mentioned and then composite over the top, the eye can barely tell there has been a change.

Better get compositing!

Thanks,

Lawrence