Compressor stops halfway - Computer wants to restart
I have a mid-2006 17" Intel Core Duo iMac with Snow Leopard installed. I'm having problems with Compressor (3.0.5) being able to completely export a 2 and half hour video from Final Cut Pro. Like I said, the film I'm compressing is 2.5 hours of HD video (down-converting to SD) and I am using the "DVD Best Quality 150 minutes" settings - both the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 (for audio) and MPEG-2 3.7Mbps 2-pass (for video).
Compressor's estimated time for completing both of these jobs is a few days... so I've let my computer sit and work on these all through the day and night.
One morning I woke up and I saw the following on the screen:
"You need to restart your computer. Hold the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." (kernel panic?)
So I do this, the computer restarts, and I find (as expected) that the jobs in Compressor never finished. The audio file of my film was completed, but the video file was not.
I've downloaded and installed the "Compressor fix" patch, but I've had no luck when I retried compressing the video. I've also looked into forums and found QMaster related issues, but that doens't seem to be a problem either. I'm guessing that maybe something with Snow Leopard isn't compatible with Compressor, seeing that I've never had this problem before. (although I've never tried compressing 2.5 hours of HD video)
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks!
Brandon Kimber wrote:
I have a mid-2006 17" Intel Core Duo iMac with Snow Leopard installed. I'm having problems with Compressor (3.0.5) being able to completely export a 2 and half hour video from Final Cut Pro. Like I said, the film I'm compressing is 2.5 hours of HD video (down-converting to SD) and I am using the "DVD Best Quality 150 minutes" settings - both the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 (for audio) and MPEG-2 3.7Mbps 2-pass (for video).
Can you post a log of your kernel panic? You can find that in the console Diagnostic Information > System Diagnostic Reports. Please copy and paste the kernel panic log in here.
*I suspect* that the Java used in Compressor 3.0.5 uses some pre-1.6 calls, and this may be related to these problems; I've been having kernel panics with it too. Apparently some Bluetooth and Camino aspects also can cause this... because they make Java calls that Snow Leopard doesn't like. THIS IS JUST A SPECULATIVE HYPOTHESIS on my part... but it makes sense... nobody with Compressor 3.5 has this problem after all. I'm going to test this theory later.
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