Did WMV Studio mess up Compressor?

In Compressor 3.0.5, I'm getting an error when I'm trying to make an mpg2 (like I've been doing for over a year successfully) that reads....
Name: Final seq 03 P-02-Kinship 22 P-10-Richards MPEG-2.m2v
Time Elapsed: 0:00:00
Time Remaining: 0:00:00
Percent Complete: 100
Status: Failed - 3x should not be auto-detect at this point
What has changed is that yesterday I upgraded from free to Flip4Mac WMV Studio so I could make a Windows Media file for a client. Did that mess me up? I don't know.
I'm trying to make the video from the FCP timeline to Compressor.

Hi,
I'm sorry I don't have an answer for your problem but I have the same error message exporting prores to m2v. It was working till now… did you had an explanation on this problem?
thanks

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