[Sverker Hahn]

No, I have never reinstalled the system. My son tells me that he reinstalls Windows now and then. Yes, it seems to be a waste of time. But this time I may need to do it

I tried to eliminate and reinstall Compressor, without success.

BTW, I have had problems with Compressor for a long time, it cannot create reference files. Exept that it does now and then, for no apparent reason.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Puuh …

So the re-intall of FCS was not enough. Do you mean FCS and Mac OS X? Nothing more? So I can just copy back all other programs and all user files? Takes some time …

By the the way, seems like Compressor works allright when it works on its own, and gives this problem only when I send FCP-sequences to Compressor.

Thanks. I´ll see when I do it correctly.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Close all open sequences with one click.

When Auto Render is active, I want to see which sequence is rendered, or – even better – a list like the Batch Export window.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Upgrade FCP.
Some people use ProRes, some don´t.
I have not seen any improvement in quality when I used ProRes.
Use Compressor.
Choose the setting for DVD – best quality 90 min.
Copy this setting and activate “Frame controls” which increases quality.
Save the new setting and use it further on

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Hi, Greg,

So I wasn´t completely wrong, then? I will start with your suggestion of -20.

Thank you.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

I searched the forum, and found a thread about killing jobs (not Jobs …:-)

I reset Compressor Background Processing and trashed Compressor and Batsh Monitor Preferences.

After that, clicking the “x” button had the expected result.

Happy again!

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Do you have your native resolution?

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Rendering takes its time, but if you export to a different codec it could take much longer. On my not so powerful iMac, an export to H.264 takes around 30 times longer than real time (I use USB harddrives).

If I need to do that export on a larger scale, there is the Matrox CompressHD (there is an ad on this very page), which is 30 times faster than my iMac (have to buy a Mac Pro as well …)

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Flip4Mac, I didn´t know that.

I tried it, but the transcoding was even slower than H.264.

But I have one more option.

Thanks, all of you.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″

[Sverker Hahn]

Michael, you are so right!

DVDSP shows that actual size is 720×576.
I use QT player to check quality directly after transcoding, instead of putting in footage into DVDSP and creating a disk image.

Thanks, Michael.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

Sony EX1
Final Cut Studio 2
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro 15″