Missing Plug-in error message when compressing video to Apple Compressor from FCPX

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Missing Plug-in error message when compressing video to Apple Compressor from FCPX

Hello! I use FCPX for editing videos.I use Apple Compressor to compress the file and convert it to a MP-4 file ready for my YouTube channel. Here's the issue...I deleted FCPX & Apple Compressor and reloaded them both. I do not believe there is anything wrong with the software as I have done many tests with them. Same old error message " Missing Plug-in" every time. Don't understand it as the very last video I did was 3 weeks ago.

Please ....is there someone who can help a senior citizen who lives in Florida? Thanks!!

Mac mini

Posted on Nov 20, 2024 1:58 PM

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Answer 1

terryb

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Nov 20, 2024 2:26 PM in response to HangTimeGolfer

What version of macOS and FCP?

If you share directly from FCP instead of sending to Compressor, do you still get the missing plugin error?

What is the footage from? What are the footage specs?

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Answer 2

Nov 20, 2024 11:25 PM in response to HangTimeGolfer

If I understand correctly, you are using "Send to Compressor" to export a FCP project in Compressor.

I have seen a few cases where this does not work very well.

I am not a fan of "Send to Compressor".

As terryb said, try exporting directly from FCP. Does it also give the same error?

Since you are uploading to youtube, I think you can stay away from Compressor entirely.

Whatever you upload will be recompressed on the server side, anyway.

You could just export file from FCP as H264, and upload that.

And, if you want to export with different settings, that are only available in Compressor, make your own custom setting, and then in FCP "export with compressor settings". No need to open Compressor, it will be dealt with inside FCP. And it will be faster, too.

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Answer 3

Nov 21, 2024 4:18 AM in response to terryb

Hi Terry,

FCP latest version is 11.0

Compressor latest ver is 4.9

What I do is after I complete the movie I export it to my desktop. At that point it is a mov. version file. I then open up Apple Compressor and drag & drop to Compressor the mov. video. I then drag & drop my custom files onto the movie in Compressor. Then I select "Batch" and it reads the file and begins the process of Compressing the video for YouTube. I have done hundreds of videos for my channels with no problem.

The problem I believe is that in my movie folder there is another folder labeled "motion templates". When I opened the folder it was empty! It should have 4 other folders as follows: Effects,Titles,Transitions,Generators. These would contain the Plug-ins I believe that were missing.

In Finder last night late I went into applications and opened FCPX & kept selecting the path until I saw fcpx folders which contained the 4 folders as mentioned above of plug-ins for this software. I copied and pasted all the files from all 4 folders into the appropriate folders back in "movies" motion templated folder. I will see if this works this morning IDK.

If I let YouTube compress my videos which I would never do they would destroy the quality of the video for sure. So that is why I always use Apple Compressor with my parameters for video, audio and 4K Quality.

Thank you for your help Terry we will see. I will let you know the outcome!

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Answer 4

Nov 21, 2024 4:19 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi Luis,

FCP latest version is 11.0

Compressor latest ver is 4.9

What I do is after I complete the movie I export it to my desktop. At that point it is a mov. version file. I then open up Apple Compressor and drag & drop to Compressor the mov. video. I then drag & drop my custom files onto the movie in Compressor. Then I select "Batch" and it reads the file and begins the process of Compressing the video for YouTube. I have done hundreds of videos for my channels with no problem.

The problem I believe is that in my movie folder there is another folder labeled "motion templates". When I opened the folder it was empty! It should have 4 other folders as follows: Effects,Titles,Transitions,Generators. These would contain the Plug-ins I believe that were missing.

In Finder last night late I went into applications and opened FCPX & kept selecting the path until I saw fcpx folders which contained the 4 folders as mentioned above of plug-ins for this software. I copied and pasted all the files from all 4 folders into the appropriate folders back in "movies" motion templated folder. I will see if this works this morning IDK.

If I let YouTube compress my videos which I would never do they would destroy the quality of the video for sure. So that is why I always use Apple Compressor with my parameters for video, audio and 4K Quality.

Thank you for your help Luis we will see. I will let you know the outcome!

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Answer 5

Nov 21, 2024 4:54 AM in response to HangTimeGolfer

Well Terry that did not work! Error message is as follows in Compressor "Failed 3x source file-not readable"

I will keep trying because as of now I am dead in the water with my Channels.

Thanks Terry!

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Answer 6

Nov 21, 2024 4:36 AM in response to HangTimeGolfer

Well Luis that did not work! Error message is as follows in Compressor "Failed 3x source file-not readable"

I will keep trying because as of now I am dead in the water with my Channels.

Thanks Luis!

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