No progress compressing

Question

Ive just imported an mp4 video file into compressor so i can make a dvd out oif it. Ive set the quality for dvd best quality 90 minutes and set my destination.
I clicked submit yesterday and the status is still saying"preparing". Should a film of 1 hour 15 minutes really take this long or have i done something wrong?

Answer 1

I seem to have made some progress AND possibly found where the issue lay.
I had originally finished my editing and chose the 'send to compressor' option. When i cancelled the compressor job within compressor and shut down the application, I went back to FCP to shut it down and it refused to let me shut it, saying it was in the process of compressing a clip via compressor (can't remember the exact message). I had to 'force' FCP to shut.
Things however would still not work, even though i decided to use the two step process of exporting the clip from the FCP timeline into a 'self-contained' movie, then bringing that into Compressor manually - if you know what I mean. However, the original problem still persisted.
I then cancelled the job, went into the preferences section and changed the 'cluster option ' from 'copy source to cluster as needed' to 'Never copy files to/from cluster'.
I restarted my computer and then 'manually' imported the self contained movie and it now seems to be working fine.