BATCH CAPTURE QUITTING DURING COMPRESSION

I'll try to simplify an earlier question:
Why, during COMPRESSION would I get the message,
"BATCH CAPTURE APPLICATION HAD TO QUIT UNEXPECTADLY?"

Did you ever get a response? I'm having the same thing happen once I start compression. Compressor was doing the same thing until I deleted the pref file. That didn't fix Batch Monitor though.

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    Is there a maximum number of clips for batch capture?
    I've had two failures today - FCP quit when tackling 208 short audio clips (around 4 - 10 seconds each). No video involved at all.
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    I've discounted the power saving theory as it happened after I changed the prefs to 'never'.
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  • Batch Capture Sequence Only

    Hey,
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    The project was longer- almost 15 minutes and was created/culled from a very large amount of source footage. All of that footage has long since gone offline.
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    That's normal. When you set In and Out in the Log & Capture window, those points become Media Start and Media End in the Browser. And In and Out are left as Not Set.
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  • Unable to locate timecode in batch capture

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