Compressor Transcoder, Compressor Transcoder X,

Hi Guys,
Thanks in advance. I have done my fair share of assembly programming. But I am trying to track down the source of some CPU usage for the above bundles. Recently maybe 3 weeks I have had erroneous CPU usage up to 70% without any of the obvious apps running.
I can kill the bundles, and this seems to stop the issue from reoccurring for a period of hours.
This usage normally turns up after quitting (normally) Compressor (the app). But if you don't kill it, it will run on endlessly.
Has anyone run into a conflict of this kind. Or is it just because my water spirals down the wrong way.
Cheers
Aldershot

I have exactly the same problem on my machine but Compressor works flawlessly so I never really worried about it.

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Compressor problem. transcode failed

Hi,
I'm using Compressor to transcode H.264 footage from a Canon DSLR to apple prorez 422 LT. Dragged in several clips to compressor, added settings and destination. Hit submit. Went to sleep. Came back in morning and transcode had FAILED. Tried again with a very short clip. No progress was made in "time remaining" window -- no time even came up, and the progress bar did not start turning blue at all. Finally i cancelled the operation.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you,
Eve

If you continue to get the 3X Crash error after following the advice you've got in this thread, my suggestion would be to download another one of Digital Rebellion's products – Pro Maintenance Tools. PMT has a Crash Analyzer that reports causes and recommendations. It's a paid app (suite of apps) but you can download a short trial.
The error means that the Compressor Transcoder has failed (ya think?) and it's not one of the more obvious ones to sort. The one time I had it was fixed by uninstalling Perian; I must have read about a conflict somewhere,
Russ

Video Dropout in Compressor 4 Transcodes

Hi,
I'm exporting a ProRes master from FCP7 then loading the file into Compressor 4 for transcoding to H264 1080 for YouTube and Vimeo.
The resulting file has video dropout thoughout.
Is this a known problem and if so does anyone have any work-rounds and/or fixes for this problem?
Thanks.
RE

Hi Russ,
I have had this happen a few times now.
The workflow is: ProRes 422 edit > export ProRes 422 from FCP 7 > transcode exported file in Compressor 4 to H264 1080 (YouTube and Vimeo preset).
It's the transcoded produced by Compressor file that has the dropout in it, not the uploaded file.

Compressor transcode problem

I have recent problem with Compressor: ridiculously slow at transcoding D7 files to Pro Res. Problem not actually in the transcode itself but takes the computer a bizarrely long time to apply the codec to each item before I can submit the batch: spinning wheel of doom for hours!
Strange thing is it's happened recently after working ok in the past and I cant see whats changed. Reckon it can only be an OSX update BUT i've seen this (unresolved) problem on old threads here and elsewhere, all archived now for some reason and no real answers for such a common issue. Can only do 10 files at a time but this is hardly 'batch processing' !
I've tried Compressor Repair from here: http://slccut.com/tutorials/40-apple...ng-preferences but this doesn't seem to help. Disconnected all ext HD's but no joy. I'm tearing my hair out as I've got 200 D7 files to transcode to ProRes and a deadline to meet! Anyone got any feasible ideas? (Would updating to latest OS help? I realise this sounds crazy 'solution' given that it was ok before on same OS but Im desperate now)
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No, looks like you are right thanks Russ: easy to batch process and you can set up a Preset for your encoder settings and SUPER fast compared to Compressor - which is both exciting and slightly worrying at the same time. (How can Streamclip do it so fast if Compressor is so horribly lumpy? Does it miss something out? Will FCP be just as happy with the files? Has my time spent transcoding in the past just been cut down to nothing with no more swearing at the computer and no more hanging around? ) We'll see. I'll let you know...

Better to transcode in Final Cut or Compressor?

Hi All! I'm transcoding to a 30,000 KB sec H.264 for a film festival screening. They sent specs that match the Quicktime conversion dialogue box out of Final Cut. I usually use compressor to make H.264s, assuming that it was better quality and/or faster than FC. IS that the case? Or is it just as good to convert out of Final Cut? Asside from being slightly easier because I've got Final Cut specs, using FC would also save me the extra step of exporting a QT and then sending the QT to compressor.
Thanks!

wing hunter wrote:
Asside from being slightly easier because I've got Final Cut specs, using FC would also save me the extra step of exporting a QT and then sending the QT to compressor.
Thanks!
What Rat Vega siad…you want your film to be dispayed at its best. So saving a few minutes here and there is less important than achieving the best quality.
Use Compressor. Take some short, representative sections from your film and test different setttings in Compressor to see which produces the best results.
Good luck at the festival.
Russ

Compressor losing services in mid-transcode - will it recover automatically?

I'm testing distributed processing for my company using Compressor with two quad-core iMacs. Everything seemed to be going fine, and the transcode was going to take about 4 hours compared to the 19 hours it would have taken on a single machine, but with less than an hour to go, three out of the four instances of Compressor on the "services only" iMac have gone down. Batch Monitor reports "3x crash HOST [iMac name] service down". I checked Activity Monitor on that machine, and the four instances of Compressor are visible, but three of them are showing 0% CPU load.
Segments that were being processed by the cores that *haven't* gone down are still transcoding, but others are reporting "Failed" or "Cancelled". Is there any point in me continuing? Will the failed/cancelled segments be automatically rescheduled to the working cores? Or do I just have to write this session off and start over by resubmitting the job, hoping the same thing won't happen again?

Try reproducing the issue in Windows safe mode with Networking.... I think the guess of a synchronization issue was correct. I just think the blame finger went to the wrong place. Windows safe mode should confirm my guess... Or prove me wrong
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Using Compressor 4, How do you create a droplet to transcode from final cut files to mp4, mp3 and m4v formatting?

Using Compressor 4, How do you create a droplet to transcode from final cut files to mp4, mp3 and m4v formatting?

Take a look at this section; it's pretty clear.
Compressor offers settings for each of the output formats you want. (For example, the m4v sttings for Apple Devices.)
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Corruption when transcoding from DV to Mpeg to in FCP, QT and Compressor

After transcoding some DV files (exported from FCP) with white 'flash frames' to m2v using Compressor, i noticed that these same frames are green with lots of corruption around them.
Any clue as to why this might happen?
http://www.zen67493.zen.co.uk/corruption.jpg
Any help would be appreciated.
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J

Thanks for the help and tips.
Ok so when I turn on the chroma and luma range check I get an "!" in the window, so there is clearly too much of something!
However when I lower the 'Max Luma' level on the filter I'm using (Too Much Too Soon Flashframe), I still get the same problem when converting to m2v.
I am begining to think that it's filter itself is causing the problem rather that the compression. The DV codec seems to handle the out of range luma but as soon as I convert it to m2v, the problem is back.
So....deep breath, can anyone recommend a filter that will give me similar results to the 'Too Much Too Soon - Flashframe' transition? It increases Luma whilst blurring either the out going or incoming clip and it looks great.
Thanks again for all your help. Unfortunately I am in the UK Michael and unable to pop of to your edit suite. Thanks for the kind offer though.

Compressor and FCP X Proxy Transcodes

Hi,
Simple question for someone that knows.
Can i distribute the transcoding of proxies and optimised media from FCP X onto other Macs using compressor?
I believe i can distribute actual encoding jobs, but wondering about the background encoding does in FCP X as well
many thanks
Paul

I would think so. I did it all manually myself. Made a folder in Applications and moved all the FCPS apps to it. Then installed FCPX.
The only issue I ran into was having 2 copies of Compressor the new one and the old one once I uninstalled the old compressor and re-installed the new one I was good to go.

Aren't FCPX and Compressor supposed to be able to export Apple ProRes 422 LT? I just bought FCPX and Compressor and there seems to be no way to transcode HDV clips to Apple ProRes422 LT. Before buying I read LACUG tutorial by R Taylor that says it can.

Aren't FCPX and Compressor supposed to be able to export Apple ProRes 422 LT? I just bought FCPX and Compressor and there seems to be no way to transcode HDV clips to Apple ProRes422 LT. Before buying these I read an LACUG tutorial by R Taylor that says it can.

Tom is right. Codecs are shared software system-wide ("Core Video"). If you cannot find the option with any software (such as MPEG Streamclip), you won't find it in Compressor or FCPX either. The Quicktime ProRes codecs is part of the FCP menu > "Download Additional Content" you need to make after install FCPX (or Compressor.) These "pro video" codecs are part of all "ProApp" licenses for video related software from Apple (QT7Pro, Motion, Compressor, Final Cut, etc....) [you can also download them here: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1396]
Most articles/tutorials you read by "long time" users are apt to assume the reader has been working with pro-video on Macs since the days of disk installs (like they have). In those days, the installation of those codecs wasn't even really an option (well, it was if you did a custom install - but who *didn't* install all available codecs??), it was automatically installed with the main software. Since the "App Store" venue... things have changed somewhat.

Compressor Burning Extra AVCHD-BluRay discs without repeating transcoding?

Newbie…using Compressor 3.5.2 to burn AVCHD discs for play on a BluRay player.
Question: Is there any workflow using Compressor saved output files which could be reused later to eliminate repeating the lengthy transcoding (“Submit”) function in order to burn additional AVCHD discs at a later time?
I know how to create an Image file using Compressor along with Disc Utility to produce copies of an original AVCHD disc.
But is there another way to recreate copies without using image files? Is it possible to save the original Compressor Batch file and the xxx.264 & xxx.ac3 files and later reuse these files in Compressor to proceed directly to burning, without going through the long long transcoding all over again?
I’ve searched the Compressor manual, and not sure whether “Droplets” are something that might help?
Like I said at the outset, I’m a novice with Compressor. Hope I expressed clearly what I'm trying to do. Initial transcoding took about 10 hours !
BoBo

Russ,
Thanks for responding.
Yes, I have read through that thread numerous times in my attempts to answer my original posted question. I'm not sure I understand all of the terminology and workflows that are discussed by the experts in that long thread.
What was very useful in that thread was the workflow described by "Meg the Dog" to produce an image file from a successful AVCHD BluRay burned disc, and then using "New Image" from Disk Utility. In fact her process has been the only way I can make an AVCHD BluRay copy using an image file.
Making an AVCHD BluRay image file directly from Compressor, and then attempting later to burn a disc from that image file has been unsuccessful for me.
To return to my original post, I was wondering if I could avoid re-transcoding (~10 hours) by reloading the saved batch file and the xxx.264 & xxx.ac3 files into Compressor.
I guess I have to start at the beginning, load again my QT export movie into Compressor, set up the BluRay variables, set Job Action to burn the AVCHD disc upon completion, click on Submit, and walk away for a day!
So far, your response has been the only one. Thanks again.
BoBo

Can Compressor transcode clips in fcpx events?

I have imported all my clips and vids into fcpx without transcoding into proxy or proress 422. I would like to have all my clips stored as h.264 or avchd inorder to keep my storage requirements reasonable. currently I have a hodge podge of codecs including DV, AVCHD, H.264, mjpg .mov, mjpg .avi and a casio codec mjpg i think. My questions are(1) can Compressor import these codecs/file formats. (2) can compressor transcode files that are already imported into events in fcpx.
thanks

Try trashing your Preferences.
This is commonly used as a remedial procedure in Applications like FCP X where preference files occasionally get corrupted and can cause unusual problems.
The simplest way to do it is by using Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion. (Free App).
With Preference Manager, you can back-up your existing preferences before trashing them, so that if the Preferences were not the cause of the problem, you can restore them with a mouse click.
This is the link for the latest version - there are links to older versions on the right of the page.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Andy

Can I transcode from .mxf (EX3) to prores in Compressor or should that be done best in FCPX?

I am new to FCPX and compressor, can I transcode from .mxf (EX3) to prores in Compressor or should that be done best in FCPX?
I would like to do it the best way, perhaps that means fastest, or least prone to troublesomeness. Cheers

Hmm…not sure.
Either way, you need to make them into Quick Time files and use the Sony transfer software for that.
FCPX is pretty fast and if your profile is accurate, it should be speedy on that version MBP. Why not do a test and report back?
Russ

Compressor performance - single core transcoding?

I have a relatively new MacBook Pro (15" Retina, 2.6 GHZ i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM). I am an experienced user of the Adobe Suite of products especially Premier Pro and Media Encoder. I have download Compressor and run a number of transcoding tests and found that trancoding takes considerably longer compared to Media Encoder. The Activity Monitor reports what looks like on a single core is running (e.g. 100% CPU and the graph showing only about 10% CPU utilization.
Is this right? Are there any settings that can be tweaked to get all the cores on this processor churning on the transcode?

Compressor is multi-core aware. It may be that your encoding job won't benefit from more than one core. I could be you're encoding a variation of H.264 that doesn't allow job segmenting.
Also, check your preferences, the Advanced section, how many "instances" is it set to? The max number is not always the most efficient. Do a test encode with the Max number, then decrease by one on following tests, see where the sweet spot is.
Finally, only single-pass H.264 will take advantage of the hardware encoding, not multi-pass.

Compressor to Encore, Why is it Transcoding?

So I found this video on YouTube:
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I follow the directions exactly, import the assett into Encore and it still wants to Transcode.
I wasted my entire weekend encoding and working on this project and now it is all a waste of time.
Anyone have a clue on how I can fix this?

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* * * Media Inspector is ©2011 by Diego Massanti - http://mediainfo.massanti.com
* * * MediaInfoLib by Jerome Martinez - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
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Special export or transcoding in compressor

Hi there,
I have a small problem with FCP export options. Perhaps it could be solved in Compressor.
I'm working on a central server. Ingest and Playout are several servers. The Ingest and Playout servers have the following File Format:
Quicktime reference file for example:
test.qt
Video is a second file, in case of DVCPro 50 it is a for example test.div file with 4 channels of audio contained.
Audio are 4 WAV Files with 2 channels contained in ech WAV file. for example test12.wav, test34.wav, test56.wav and test78.wav
So if you play the Quicktime file test.qt you find a Video File with 8 Audio channels.
Now here is my question. You need this kind of structure when you want to put something to the playout server. Is it possible to do this by scripting in compressor oder do you have to write an apple script for that?
Best regards
Martin

Hello Adam,
you'll need a common denominator to get all the footage in project: ProRes LT or ProRes 422.
You should be able to ingest all the footage from both cameras through Log & Transfer. Have a look at Shane's tutorial: http://library.creativecow.net/rossshane/tapeless-workflowfcp-7/1
hope this helps
mish

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