Cannot submit batch? Try this

If you are like me, and ready to put a gun to your head over Apple Compressor's "Cannot connect to background process" BUG, then here is something you can try. It's insane to have to do this, but if like me you REALLY NEED to be able to export to Compressor from Final Cut (my reference movie was 100GB and taking two days to encode, and then not even correctly), here is what is working for me:
1) Restart the machine with the ethernet cable unplugged. (Why, I don't know, but it has been the only way I can get Compressor standalone to work).
2) Run Compressor by itself and start compressing a "Decoy" movie, something short that you don't really want to compress. If you are lucky, this may work.
3) Start Final Cut and Export To Compressor the real project you want to compress. Since the Batch Monitor is already running, it will connect! If you are lucky!
4) You can delete the test movie job in the Batch monitor window and it will start on your real project.
5) Reconnect the ethernet cable.
I know it is a hassle but if you have tried the thousands of suggestions out there with no success, this isn't as bad as those are.
Bob

The content - whether looping or transitions or whatever has nothing to do with the size of the output file. What codec are you using? 30 GB per hour seems a lot. Are you using uncompressed? Was your source uncompressed?.
As to the ethernet - I meant when it wouldn't let you connect to background processes. But if you're not running compressor 2, I don't think you have clusters.
Are you exporting to Compressor from FCP? If you do a non-self contained QT, how big is that? What happens if you submit that to compressor directly.
Finally (probably should have been Firstly), why are you using Compressor? If you're going to DVDSP, just take the non-selfcontained QT and put that into DVDSP, let it handle the compressing/muxing. What version of DVDSP do you have?
Patrick
EDIT: Wait a minute - you're saying that the non-self contained (reference) movie is 100GB?!?!? That would imply a HUGE amount of un-rendered material (this must be rendered and placed in the "reference" quicktime). If you have un-rendered material, you should render it BEFORE exporting.

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