[Ted Martin]

Hi Craig,
I was finally able to get back to this issue with Compressor. That you for not giving up on me and this issue. I did create a New User Admin account and the result was the same issue: 15 minute project using one of the Compressor provided templates which was done “successfully” according to Compressor but the finished project was NOT 15 minutes in length but completed at the 8 minute point in the production. It stopped encoding at about the half way point in the production. In addition, I did create another test project which was 8 minutes in length and Compressor did “successfully” complete the 8 minute project BUT this time it ended up 12 minutes in length. No clue at this point.

[Ted Martin]

Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds

[Ted Martin]

Input: Apple ProRes 422

[Ted Martin]

I will try to provide more detailed information as suggested in your Sticky Post. I am basing this on my MacBook Pro because I am not near my iMac. I have tried my project on this MacBook Pro with the same “not entire movie” result.

RAM: 8

HD:

Input Codec: Quicktime (10.5)
Output Codec: MPEG-2 For DVD

Destination: Desktop

[Ted Martin]

I really appreciate your ideas! I have already tried:

1. reset the preferences
2. I did try to encode a success file from last year which is half the size of the current project with the same “not entire movie” result
3. plenty of drive space with no RAM issues that I can see
4. tried to encode the project on a dinosaur MacPro machine from 2006 using Lion and Compressor 3 with the same “not entire movie result”

Could this be a Quicktime issue?

[Ted Martin]

It sounds like we both use the same method which is: use Final Cut Pro’s “Share” button and send the FCP project to “Master File” which creates a Quicktime movie which I open with Compressor. This route has always worked great for me up until I ran into the “not finishing the ENTIRE movie” issue. What Compressor does finish looks great but it doesn’t finish the entire movie. Compressor’s “Completed” menu identifies the project as “Successful”. Usually anywhere from one minute to half the movie short. Very strange because I can run the Quicktime movie with Compressor four times and the finished product is always short at different spots in the movie. This is the first movie I have tried to create with Mojave. I wonder if that is an issue?

[Ted Martin]

Thank you, Pete. I have a rather slow learning curve and this should be a good beginning point.