Hello and thanks for your reply.
Ive done it both ways in the past with success.
This time however I exported straight from the original sequence because i wanted the best possible quality. I was working from the understanding that Compressor would put an I frame on every cut in my edit and I was after as many I -frames as possible…
About half an hour ago I bit the bullet and copied the folder in my destination drive that the encode was being written to.
Then I quit Compressor and opened the M2V in Studio Pro…. IT WORKED just fine.. somehow it was reporting itself as being 99% complete and still ticking away when as far as I can tell it was actually 100% complete. I have no clue why but I am relieved it worked in the end… 102hrs later.
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