Quicktime Error -120  Any permanent solution?

Has anyone found a permanent solution for this error? We are encoding HD 1080i to H264s via a droplet. The -120 error does not happen every time we encode. We are getting tired of resetting the background process in Compressor. We are getting this on only one of three Macs...

Eric@Charter wrote:
Has anyone found a permanent solution for this error?
A superficial search indicates negative. But I've never enountered the error myself.
Eric@Charter wrote:
We are encoding HD 1080i to H264s via a droplet. The -120 error does not happen every time we encode.
Then it's not a software problem. It must be related to your media or your hardware.
Eric@Charter wrote:
We are getting tired of resetting the background process in Compressor. We are getting this on only one of three Macs...
Why are you resetting background processes for Compressor?
Isolating the problem to one machine indicates clearly it's not a Compressor problem or it would be present on each of your machines and we would be seeing this topic much more often.
Simple but tedious binary tests are required to debug this. You start with a project that returns the error and move it to another machine. If it doesn't error out, the problem lies on the first machine. If you bring a known good project from Machine 2 to Machine 1 and Machine 1 errors out, you know it's the machine. But you don't know what on the machine is causing the problem. Now you start looking for likely causes starting with drives.
bogiesan

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