Compressor WAY too slow!

You're not giving us much to go on…like what type output file you're trying to create.

Generally, I would avoid "sending to Compressor" because of a lot of reasons that I won't go into now. Instead, export as a QT movie, current settings (presumably one of the Pro Res flavors). Check your sequence settings (command 0) to confirm that your sequence is in fact Pro Res.

Then you can drag your QT file into Compressor and do whatever you're trying to do for output.

If you have turned Frame Controls on, avoid the Best settings, which can make encodes extremely long.

Good luck.

Russ

I don't think the deinterlace in frame controls is the same as in filters tab. I'd suggest you do a test on a short section with a lot of movement using both methods. You can set ins and outs in the preview window in compressor and you can customize and save your presets with a specific name which makes this kind of experimentation very easy.

Also, check out this page from Digital Rebellion on setting up compressor to render using qmaster

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/using_compressor_with_multiple_cores. html

It will speed things up enormlously.

Although Russ recommends not using the Best settings in Frame Controls, I've found it makes an enormous difference in quality. For my final outputs, if I'm doing any resizing, I always go with best.

Michael's correct about the de-interlace filter (in the Video Filters Tab) being different; actually, the manual says don't use it.

And I don't want to leave the impression that I'm not a fan of Frame Controls because I actually use them regularly. Setting the resize filter to Best per se doesn't generally produce impossibly long encodes, but choosing multiple Best settings can and in those cases I find Better is often quite satisfactory.

Russ

there is a great solution for this,

it's extremely fast (4 simultanious conversions, extremely large batch lists, click & run immediatly)

and best of all:

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where I came from

I needed to batch convert Canon 5D footage (33GB!) to Apple Pro Ress 422, didn't work at all:

Compressor didn't work, took me days, didn't respond, terrible, Apple ruined it.

Quicktime 7 Pro opening it by hand, one by one, worked pretty fast though,

but no batch functionality, not going to do the hand job...

But there should be something possible one might think if the handjob is faster than the batchjob.

Adobe Media Encoder crashed with such large amounts of data, no go eather.

But MPEG StreamClip did it for me, even better, faster, more settings, cropping, de-interlacing, audio-settings, all the things you need. You even can repair your Time Code. I use StreamClip since the beginning. Works flawless on Apple & Windows:

solution

download it here: http://www.squared5.com

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MPEG StreamClip needs to be in every filmmakers toolbox.

system info:

MacBook Pro

17-inch, Mid 2010

Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel HD Graphics 288 MB

Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G56)

Final Cut Pro 7 latest update

MPEG Streamclip: Version 1.9.2 (1.9.2)

to proof how fast it runs check the documents creation times:

list view in MPEG STreamclip:

Converting 33GB of Canon 5D DSLR footage to Apple ProRess 422 will take about 2 hours.

Problem solved.