Patrick Givens
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I’ve been using 10.7.5 on two Mac Pros (2010 – 2 x 2.4 quad core w/ATI Radeon HD 5870) running FCP 7 and CS6 for a couple of years now with very few issues. Both machines are work horses and sure FCP crashes once every blue moon (it’s always done that since version 1), and compressor hasn’t worked well for awhile now (adobe media encoder is much better anyway). I would, however, beware of upgrading to Mavericks if you plan on using FCP extensively.
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Just for those who may be wondering if I ever found a solution to this original issue……. well NO I didn’t. Though I didn’t reinstall the software which could actually be the only resolve, I did however start using Adobe Media Encoder which has been great (especially CS6 w/ FTP auto capabilities)). And Adobe Encore isn’t too bad either (it does Blue Ray projects). I guess this is just one more step AWAY from FCP….. sniff sniff.
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I realize this an older thread, but I’ve found that png files will cause FCP7 to crash if it doesn’t match the project/seq frame size.
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Eric, thanks for the info. I had previously done the things you listed except enabling “restart services every 24hrs”. So I did it again following your steps and submit is still greyed out. I think the only thing left to do is to re-install Compressor. I will as soon as my current project is finished. I’ll post results.
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Sean, you may be on to something. I was wondering about that possibility as well, but it seems there would be a lot more folks having the same issues. I use compressor quite a bit, like most of us, and I’ve never had any previous issues before (except being slow with some codecs-compared to mpeg streamclip). Last fall I upgraded to a bigger Mac Pro and installed Lion expecting there to be a few hiccups, but it’s been virtually seamless……. until now.
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That’s one of the first things I did. Plus Compressor Repair trashes the prefs each time you run it.
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Thanks Michael for the reply. I’ve tried different source & destination settings. I’ve tried different codecs and all kinds of different names (including the 4 letter kind). I’ve even tried exporting out of FCP as a clip & as a sequence, and bypassing FCP all together to no avail. The only thing I haven’t done that was mentioned in a previous thread was to re-install. But since I’m in the middle of a project, that will have to wait. I was just hoping someone would have another idea that I didn’t see when searching the cow on this topic.
No doubt that I’ll eventually figure this out, but I would be eternally grateful if someone has the solution already. I really could use compressor right now.
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