Source as Destination is Not Working

Question

I have several clips in FCP.
I select them all and select: Send To - Compressor
In Compressor I see that my destination is definitely set as Source (I assume this should be the folder where my original clips exists).
Compressor creates the new files, but they are created in the root folder and not in the source folder.
Am I doing something wrong?
Does this always happen when you send the original clips from inside FCP?
Thanks for any help,
Chris

Answer 1

You can't fix that which is not broken. This is one of those things that, rather than try to make it do what you want, learn how it works, and then do it that way.
A clip in your FCP browser is not actually a clip. It's a pointer, pointing to a clip, or portion of a clip in the Finder. So, there is no SOURCE destination, because the source of the icon you clicked on to export is the browser in FCP. That browser does not exist anywhere in the Finder. It's important to understand here that FCP uses the Finder to organize your media. It's not self-contained like Avid or iMovie.
If you want to set a default location for all your exports, you can set it in the Preferences of Compressor. The Source destination only works if you have an already exported clip in the Finder, and you want to encode it to something else.
Just to reiterate, there is NO source for clip pointers anywhere on your computer. Or, if you like, the source destination for ALL clip pointers (browser items) is the ROOT level of your hard drive. You can't change this. All you can do is set a different default destination.