FCP EXPORT TO COMPRESSOR AND HAVE IT BATCHED & FREE-UP FCP POSSIBLE?

Hi all, I am selecting all my sequences in FCP, then choosing export to compressor, then submitting the job. The job is batched (appears in Batch Monitor) but I am returned to FCP only to watch a frame by frame compressor processing window, and I can't use FCP until the jobs are done.
Is there a way to free up FCP so I can work while the batched jobs process? Perhaps this is due to the fact that I have embedded motion projects on the timeline? Well, help here is appreciated, perhaps I can save hours of downtime! cheers,
coocoo

Coocoo
When you export through Compressor directly from your timeline, Compressor use the raw data from each timeline frame to encode. That's because it needs to refer constantly to FCP.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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