I finally got compressor 2 to WORK!

I was having all of the same problems everyone else here is having, unable to connect to the background process, crashing as soon as it opens, EXTREMELY slow encode times, etc, etc. My system was working great with FCP 4.5, Compressor 1.21, and DVD Studio Pro 3, running on Panther. Then I upgraded to Tiger and installed Motion 2 and Soundtrack Pro, which also upggraded Compressor to Version 2. That's when all my problems began. I tried just about every solution that was offered on this forum and from Apple. And every time, as soon as one problem seemed to be fixed, another one popped up. It was also more than just compressor, I was having problems with motion, soundtrack, and DVDSP as well. I tried removing receipts, preferences, reinstalling all of my programs, and anything else that someone has posed as a fix. None of it worked for me.
I finally decided to just start over. I performed an erase and install on my boot drive with my Tiger install disc. I don't save any project files on this drive, so I didn't have to hassal with coping files I wanted to save to another drive. I then installed some apps from my panther disc that did not come included with Tiger. If you need to do this, be sure and do it before you install any software updates. It wouldn't let me do this after I installed the updates and I had to start over. Then I reinstalled all of my programs starting with motion 2 and soundtrack pro so that Compressor 2 would be installed first. Then when I installed DVDSP 3 and FCP 4.5, I did a custom install and unchecked Compressor.
Now everything is working wonderfully, including Compressor. My encodes look as good as they did with version 1. In addition, my encode speeds are about twice as fast as version 1. So in my situation, I believe the problem was in the upgrade to Tiger from Panther. So if you are having problems and you just did a simple upgrade to Tiger from a previous OS, you might want to consider erasing your boot drive and installing Tiger from scratch.
Good Luck.
Andy

The was the older apps bundle an older version of Compressor. The app installers should catch this and do nothing, but it sometimes doesnt, resulting in a mixing old frameworks with newer code, and at that point you're lucky if the app just crashes on launch, cause you cant trust any of the output. If the apps were statically linked this wouldnt be a problem, but pro apps in general seem to share a lot of code.

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