Ethanmsmith
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I've cut a DV feature on FCP-3 (outdated, I know, but I don't think this is the root of my problem) and exported a self-contained movie file using current settings; the result is a Final Cut Pro Movie File that's about 30Gigs and 135mins. It looks good and plays clean.
I import my movie file into Compressor (2.0.1) and submit the project at various settings - CBR, VBR, One & two-pass, 120 & 150mins - and it always encodes the Aiff files and the AC3 files fine.
Then it gives me a time estimate on the M2V file of 6 to 9 hours, and my computer promptly crashes. If I try to submit the encode solely for the M2V file, independent of the audio, it crashes that much sooner. The crashes vary - sometimes code spills over the screen, sometimes the computer simply freezes, and sometimes I get the grayed-out screen with multilingual "you need to restart your computer" message.
Thus far I've done the following:
Played with my work flow; put my movie file on the external firewire drive and set the destination to my internal HD, and vice versa. I've also set it up so that destination and source file are both on my internal disc.
I've run disc utility and reset permissions.
I've reset pram.
I'd try and hack up the movie file into several smaller segments, but since the computer crashes immediately upon attempting an M2V, and not after any particular duration, I don't think the file size/length is the issue.
It seems that my computer, or rather Compressor, simply doesnt want to encode M2Vs.
I've seen identical postings elsewhere on the net, but haven't found any answers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
All the best in the New Year.
Best,
Ethan
I import my movie file into Compressor (2.0.1) and submit the project at various settings - CBR, VBR, One & two-pass, 120 & 150mins - and it always encodes the Aiff files and the AC3 files fine.
Then it gives me a time estimate on the M2V file of 6 to 9 hours, and my computer promptly crashes. If I try to submit the encode solely for the M2V file, independent of the audio, it crashes that much sooner. The crashes vary - sometimes code spills over the screen, sometimes the computer simply freezes, and sometimes I get the grayed-out screen with multilingual "you need to restart your computer" message.
Thus far I've done the following:
Played with my work flow; put my movie file on the external firewire drive and set the destination to my internal HD, and vice versa. I've also set it up so that destination and source file are both on my internal disc.
I've run disc utility and reset permissions.
I've reset pram.
I'd try and hack up the movie file into several smaller segments, but since the computer crashes immediately upon attempting an M2V, and not after any particular duration, I don't think the file size/length is the issue.
It seems that my computer, or rather Compressor, simply doesnt want to encode M2Vs.
I've seen identical postings elsewhere on the net, but haven't found any answers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
All the best in the New Year.
Best,
Ethan