FCPX to Compressor - Compressor giving me only black?

Hi Luis,

It's been so long since I deleted preferences. I even have 'Preference Manager', a great app. I remembered a few hours ago, trashed my preferences, and everything is working hunky dory again. Nice easy fix.

Thank you as always, for your help ...

Ben

I take back my previous note. I was able to produce a nice 1 minute test. Then when I went to do the 11 minute piece ... nada ... everything black.

I think I'm going to delete the app off the computer and re-install it. See if that helps.

Hi Al. Left the cutting room. Just finished homemade lasagna compliments of me Mum. Now for two rounds of Elementary - American Sherlock Holmes, terrific. I’ll follow up first thing in the morning ... I’m pretty sure timeline is 4K 24fps, camera was GH5, probably shooting 4:2:2 400mbps. I was just using the default Vimeo 4K setting in Compressor, except for bumping the bps (or whatever it’s called) up to 30,000 - which I’ve done many times before with no issues.

First thing in the morning I’ll re-install Compressor, and report in here.

All the best A,

B

Hi Luis, Hi Al,

I re-installed Compressor. It's still not working. Now instead of a black image it's just never completing the compression ... meaning it stalls at the very end and never completes. Yesterday I managed to get a thirty second piece through. But it seems as if something is seriously off with Compressor. The codec coming from FCPX is 'avc1', with Linear PCM audio. I've never had an issue with it before, pretty standard stuff... in this case produced by a GH5 and an EVA-1.

For right now I just made a ProRes 422HQ straight out of FCPX, and am having Quicktime make me the H264. Very slow process I'm noticing. Dang. I remember Compressor used to crank out a 10 minute H264 in under half an hour. All a mystery to me right now. And I'm also wondering how big the file is going to be....

No answers yet ... and I'm not finding much about Compressor out in the web either.