Chopping Up Video In Compressor

I work for a church which produces weekly services that need to be distributed in various formats. We use Final Cut Studio as well as Final Cut Server. With the copyright restrictions we have several different cuts of the service have to be produced.
For DVD and Live Streaming, we can use a cut of the entire service.
For Vimeo, we have to cut out all the live music.
For Youtube, we have to cut the live music and chop it into 10 minute segments.
I am trying to automate the process as much as possible, so we can make one cut, add makers and send it to Compressor from FCP. Compressor would then chop it up, compress it and send it the the correct location.
All the documentation I have found mentions nothing about being able to segment a video. Is there a way to do this? We have programmers, could Apple Script help? Additional software?
It would be an enormous time savings.
Thanks,
Austin

Automating the process may be a bit of a challenge, but you can use In and Out points to define a section of the source media you want to encode. You can import the same source multiple times and define different in and out points for each instance...that may satisfy your YouTube requirements.
You need to create a source though that doesn't have the live music because you can not enable and disable individual tracks in Compressor. It's either all on or all off.
bg

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Can you update your profile, we don't know what your hardware set up is or your OS, or version of FCS. It could give you answers a lot faster if we know your details from the off.
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>prepare files for a SD DVD in DVD Studio Pro.
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Let me see if I can wrap my head around what you're trying to do. You started with an HD timeline 1280 x 720 (16:9). Into this you want to add your SD PAL clips, shrunk down for a picture in picture effect (a completely different concept from multicam.) But your shrunk down clips have nasty interlacing, and the one clip which was meant to be full frame looks like rubbish, right? Sorry but there's no way to blow a clip up 180% and have it look even halfway decent. At least not in FCP. Compressor has an upscale algorithm, available in the same Frame Controls tab where you did the de-interlacing, which can give you somewhat better results. There's also a plug-in from Red Giant called Instant HD which may or may not yield better results than Compressor.
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Hi Bill, again just trawling these forums in search of another prolem solution and ran over your post. I'm not sure if every problem reported in these forums requires removing the app's preferences or running a third party product that does it as well.. Sometimes it will work. Usually there's a process somewhere in Compressor or its subcomponents used in the OS that need to kicked in the arse or terminated and restarted or is handed a flawed structure it can't handle entirely and fails.
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A good practice is to see if you can determine one of these flaws before getting the chainsaw and axe out for a "hack and bash session". Chances are you will have this again.
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The probable sources of state information may be deleted and Compressor and Qmaster can be started again. However before embarking on this easy walkthrough ......
Step 1: Stop Apple Qmaster your current host. (Compressor.app/Application Menu Apple Qmaster/Share This Computer / Setup tab/ and untick "Share This Computer").
count to 10 slowly and all the compressord tasks will stop. Qmasterd is still active...thats cool.
Step 2: QUIT Compressor.app on your current host.
Step 3: Make a second instance of your Compressor.app Settings , Destinations and Layouts: As stated a tonne of time in so many threads , that in Compressor 4, these structures for Qmaster and some of Compressors have been moved into the users home domain (i.e. ~/) in the ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Settings and ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Layouts directories. If you dont have any then move to the next step....
THerefore simply DUPLICATE or COPY them to another place such as your ~/Desktop. U can use the FINDER or simple unix cli commands such as:
cp -Rv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/Settings ~/Desktop
cp -Rv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/Layouts ~/Desktop
Step 4: remove | purge | delete compressors Lion/ML saved state.... ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Compressor.savedState
You can also remove the the saved state entry for Compressor.app so tha you wont be bothered with it trying to resstablish where it was when it failed or you last quit it.
rm ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Compressor.savedState or just selct and +del it in the trash (hold the OPTION key and select the Finder GO menu to access your homes ~/Library/)
After doing this you can basically destroy | delete | purge | remove your ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor and also your ~/Library/Application Support/Apple Qmaster directories
OK if you're up to it I will refer you to a post where this procedure is comprehensivley detailed. I'm fairly certain that when you follow this procedure and remove these compressor and Qmaster structure and restart then re-set up any clusters and networking, tha compressor will work amazingly well again.... probably like it used to.
Step 5: click over to ths apple forum post and follow the steps in there. No need to duplicate its contents here. The link is at https://discussions.apple.com/message/17356372#17356372%2317356372
Step n: well if you have returned to here hopefully compressor V4..app with Qmaster is running and its like brand new. 9 of 10 times this is the case.
Basically you have purged your current folders:
~/Library/Application Support/Compressor and
~/Library/Application Support/Apple Qmaster
Now a few more things to consider as mentioned in the post at https://discussions.apple.com/message/17356372#17356372%2317356372 is not to be too impatient. THese compressor and qmaster components take a little time to communicate and ready themselves. You will be able to see this via teh activity monitor.app and also right-gear-down on the compressor.app icon n the dock. Look for SERVICES. If you only have one, add some more in the qmaster prefs.
ALso make sure you c=can use Compressor.app / File /Mount Cluster Storage and tha you get a voluem for your cluster apearing in the list box.
No volume then qmaster is not set up.
You may have to do all the above again.
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Please report back you progress so tha others my benefit..
HTH
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