Compressor Stalls, won't finish job

Thanks for responding, Russ, much appreciated.

It creates the .m2v file and the .ac3 file on my HD, but it never gets to the point of making the .mov file, however, as that is where it stalls. Just FYI, I also tried repairing disc permissions. Nothing seems to work. This used to work fine. I am not sure if Mountain Lion is the culprit or not.

Any suggestions?

Sorry, I explained that wrong, when it stalls Compressor is not trying to make a .mov file, it is trying to burn a DVD. What is not happening is that it is not creating a "PAR" folder as it did before then creating a DVD.

I tried DR Comp Repair. No luck.

Thanks, Russ.

What I think may have happened is this:

Because my office computer has a much higher internet speed what I did before was I downloaded Compressor at my office then just put Compressor on a thumbdrive and loaded it on my home computer. This technique had worked before without a hitch before with FCPX and other updates. My issue with the home computer also is that when I go to download updates from the app store they will download and then often times not install for some reason. I am not sure if it is a setting on my computer or not.

I long for the days where you could just download a stand alone update, that way I could download jst once and put it on all of my computers.

At any rate, I followed your suggestion and used FCS Remover and I am now trying to download Compressor 4 from the appp store. I wonder if I am going to get 4.0 or 4.0.4? This could take quite a while, but when it is done downloading and installing (I hope) I will let you know how it went.

Would there be a way to download an update of Compressor on one computer and then gather all the downloaded components on a thumb drive and do a manual install on another computer?

Hi David, yes, the Compressor at my home and office were purchased under the same account.

To my horror, now my office computer is doing the same thing. Compressor just stalls when it gets to the burn stage. In the Share Monitor it says "waiting."

I guess I will try downloading Compressor at my office too (it is currently downloading at my house so I don't know the result of that yet).

Could there be a DVD driver that I need to update?

oh god have mercy on my soul. Just talked with Apple. It turns out it is a "Mountain Lion" issue that the engineers already know about. They suggested creating a Lion partition on the HD and open from Lion and burn, how do you do this?

I have a contact who works with FCPX who helped me on a previous-very serious-issue.

Ok, so burning with Toast 11, I have 3 options:

A) Burn from the original .mov file by dragging it into Toast, then burn.

B) Copy a DVD that I had already burned using the DVD copy function of Toast.

C) use the 2 files created by my attempt to use Compressor (the mv2 file and the ac3 files) and load them in Toast.

Which will give me the best quality DVD?