Q: Compressor flickers and a gazillion more problems...

Hi BenB,

thanks for taking your time.

As I wrote above, the original videos I tested are .mov & .mp4 containers with several usual ProRes & H.264 codecs. The input format seems to make no difference.

The output presets (tried most of them) make no difference either, as well as tweaking new output formats.

What makes me clueless is the fact that any other player performs without errors.

Any ideas? Thanks again Sir.

[Edit] Additional info: I even didn't try to convert anything until now, because first I'd like to solve the errors the Compressor's play canvas shows up. It's not only not playable without the described errors, it also doesn't show in/out differences.

Hello Russ H,

thanks for looking into this.

Your assumption is right, the files come not from FCP nor Motion, just dragged from Finder to Compressor's batch-list.

I'll try to make a screencast tomorrow which may visualize the whole process better than it's explained by words.

Thanks Russ and friendly regards.

Well, here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hbb3cga196qzx8/CompressorAnnoyancesPart1.zip?dl=0

Around 100MB. The .zip contains a Screencast, a .pdf with details of the used input files and a ReadMe.txt.

Thanks to anyone who takes a look into this.

Regards.

Thanks Russ for checking this.

Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4pt94pcys1sl43/1280x552%20H.264%20AAC%204m38%20%28Sho rtCut%29.mov?dl=0

Anyhow, I'm sure the problems are not coming from any input files. This is a Compressor's play canvas error.

As I migrated my system for several years now to newer machines/OS versions, this might come from an old decoder .component. I'll dig into my system tomorrow and let you know.

Regards.

Thanks Russ.

I reinstalled the Pro Video Formats [2.0.4] as suggested but the flicker in Compressor is still the same.

Funny enough, the already installed AppleIntermediateCodec.component was newer [2.0.3] than the the one of the installer [2.0.2]. At the other side the whole IMX support was missed but any other install files where already up-to-date.

(Not only compared version numbers but also did deeper file diffs before installing)

I was also thinking as a last resort to try FCS Remover but I'm afraid to get even more mess on a productive used machine. Will maybe try however.

As I'm not unaware of video/audio editing, developing (20+ languages, even wrote my own video-player/editor) and working with Macs since the eighties (yeah, last century ), I still have no clue what causes this.

Therefore I'm thankful for any kind of further hints/suggestions.

Regards.

Hello Russ,

I've seen you're on an iMac as well but with El Cap 10.11.4. Is this still correct? What graphic card do you have?

I found out somewhere that some people had issues after upgrading to 10.11.6, i.e. their GPU support for distributed rendering w/ Compressor stopped working. Well, digging in the dark...

Regards.

To whom it may concern.

After a week of discovering more and more quirks on Compressor, I give up. I'm not only talking about my OT (which might be something on my machine but Compressor brings it's own components/frameworks inside the app package which seem not to be recognized by the OS correctly), I'm talking about the things even a beginner wouldn't code. So here are some examples of the "Gazillions"-1:

• Try to have a dot in your filename and Compressor cuts out everything after the dot. As a coder, searching a file string from left to right instead of right to left to determine the extension, is...well...speechless to me.

• Clickable elements are hidden until you move the mouse over the hidden option (i.e. hide/show in settings pane. But design goes over functionality...)

• Resizing Compressors window sometimes causes the batch-list not to scroll completely.

• The mix of language localization is terrible. (And more worse the inability of the OS to switch app-based language without a hack inside app-packages). Everyone speaks english in the professional filmmakers industry. Getting bad translations, especially on technical terms let's one pull his hair out while the client asks his self if you are worth the money.

• Set an in/out point. Let the movie play. Stop it and step one frame back: It jumps to the in point instead. No words...

• Missing keyboard shortcuts like switching preview: Not there.

• Quit Compressor and it asks if you want to save (whatever) to an "Untitled" document, even there isn't a menu for saving whatever. (This quirk exist a long long time and still hasn't been changed. *sic*)

The list is much longer but I stop here, because my time is expensive as yours and I need this time to take care for my co-workers and clients.

I'm an registered developer since 14 years for Mac's OS's. Beside I'm driving a professional filmmakers business, I'm developing apps for my in-house needs. My employees would stone me for such a software.

And while I'm using Macs since some decades in professional & creative environments as a musician/filmmaker/developer, I feel sad how Apple is not interested anymore in the 'pros' and 'creatives'.

I'm out of here, this leads to nothing than expensive time waste to me (and to helpful people).

Thanks Russ anyway for your time and help.

PS: Please no more comments like "Let your mac check for hardware issues. It has none. And I'm a 'genius' by myself, not needing a 'bar'. I need a 'nerd' like I am but this 'internets' is now full of script-kids and non-knowledge that it's even hard to me to find solutions. Well, that's another topic...

This forum software is a catastrophe. Posting often results in messages like "Your content couldn't be saved" or: the user xyz (not me) has been banned. Trying to click the bottom popup "refresh page" immediately closes the popup making it unclickable. I really have enough. I think Apple has to do a lot now to get back a believing community. I can imagine what would happen if I would do this to my clients at my servers...