Mac Compressor shows 'Missing Plugin' and Red Screen after Final Cut Export

This happened to me today, too, after updating Compressor. It was a complete mystery because I didn't run any plugins or filters on the video in FCP. Not even a transition. Just a straight-up trim off the beginning, added a lower third, pushed it to Compressor, and got a tiny file with nothing but the red "missing plugin" error. I ended up just sharing out of FCP -- using the exact same export profile -- and it was fine.

I just chalked it up to Compressor continuing to be a hot mess of errors, stalled processing, and other odd behavior.

Jumping into this discussion as I have the same issue...

Mac is on Monterey 12.3.1

FCP is on 10.6.2

Compressor is 4.6.1

I'm not sure which Pro Video Formats version I am on but I have recently updated, so assume it's 2.2.3

Send to Compressor from FCP inevitably leads to a Missing Plugin message.

Sharing from FCP works fine.

I have tested via the same hard drive on a laptop, which worked (although that laptop is freaking out in other ways, with compressor refusing to open, so perhaps the same problem is showing up in a different way?)

The media on this particular library and project is all from a Sony FS700 - other projects on the same drive have Black Magic derived footage (but transcoded to ProRes) and GH5 footage too.

I think it's a drive issue, as opening one of the same projects on a backup hard drive doesn't cause the same issue.

Any thoughts, or just...back up and move on?!

Thanks,

Josh

My i9 iMac was 11.6.4 all working fine...my new MacBook M1 is 12.4 now, so I wanted to update the iMac to 12.4 as well to keep it all the same....did an update of the OS to 12.4 and Compressor gives me the exact same error. I had other weird permission things on my external drive (folder I have always used on a Promise Raid for export, locked in Compressor, but I can access it in the OS just fine) and I have had a few other weird issues...so I decided to Reinstall the OS from Recovery...I originally had hoped to go back to 11.6.4 but no joy there...so I updated the OS from Recovery...on first glance, all was working great...I was able to send a batch from FCP (latest) and it worked. This morning I repeated the test as I am working on a new project and I get the missing plugin message in Compressor. I export the file to my desktop then drop it in compressor to apply my custom settings and it works fine. This is only an issue when sending a batch from FCP.

Any ideas? Is fixing permission on the boot volume still a thing?

-Mike

Are you using Send to Compressor in FCP?

Does exporting directly in FCP work?

Any idea which plugins these could be? They may need to be updated.

I got the "Missing Plugin" message today. Decided to upgrade to the following:

Mac is on Monterey 12.3.1

FCP is on 10.6.2

Compressor is 4.6.1

It did NOT fix the issue.

What OS? What FCP version? What Compressor version? What Pro Video Formats version? What are the media specs from what camera? Doors it requires a playback utility? Has it been updated?