Compressor is permanently stuck on waiting

I had a batch process set up and after the first couple of files it was clear that Compressor was going to take about three hours per file to process. The computer had to be shut down, so all the items were paused. Now whenever I try to run a process the Active window simply says waiting. No idea what or who it's waiting for. Trashed prefs and rebooted multiple times. The application is completely useless. It completely boggles the mind that there is no process reset function. It's currently a piece of garbage taking space on my hard drive. Any suggestion on how to reset this application so it's functional again? Thanks.

Thanks Russ. I had to do the whole folder before I got anything. Then when I ran Compressor I got this odd message
and the application became non-responsive. Force Quit. Trashed prefs. Open the App Support/Compressor folder and put back Settings and then the application ran again. Except that one of the files that had previously been processed using another OS, was overwritten during one of the tests while the app was in the Waiting mode (trashing History was not enough), so that had to be redone.
All in all an unpleasant experience and probably one that should be avoidable by the application. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

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