Compressor is adding ONE random frame to the beggining of my videos... why?

Here's the screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kj7uyi6d229ydlw/Screenshot%202014-02-17%2003.41.46%283 %29.png

It's not letting me add the picture.... try this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kj7uyi6d229ydlw/Screenshot%202014-02-17%2003.41.46%283 %29.png

I am exporting the source file from premiere pro as h264 and 1080p with no extra settings clicked. Just shooting for one single high quality h264 file. The frame is definitely not in the source video... I've checked multiple times.

I ended up solving the issue... and yes, you are right.

I was forced to export the files as quicktime... basically converting the file to ProRes before putting it into compressor.

This was ********, as this drastically increased the file size from the source media and subseqent compression caused a reduction in quality.

I simply learned adobe media encoder, chose the appropriate h264/mp4 setting right off the bat, and exported a file that is not only a much HIGHER QUALITY, but also significantly smaller than the file resulting from compressor exports.

The bottom line is this... despite having spent a long time building a network to distribute processing, and upgrading operating systems on "non-upgradeable" machines to do so... I'm DONE WITH COMPRESSOR.

Compression shouldn't take hours and hours anyhow... the only reason it's necessary to distribute processing with compressor is Apple ProRes's unnecessary hugeness.

No more taking up piles of memory with this god-aweful codec. No more stupid-long exports. Adobe handled everythign beautifully, and quickly at the absolute highest setting.

I feel like I've wasted a lot of time... but that's all over now! This product can burn for all I care. Thanks for your help Russ... I've seen the light, and the word "Adobe" shimmering in it's midst.

Hey guys,

X I fully hear what you're saying, and trust me... I just spend $1,500 on a NAS drive and ran cables throughout my entire house so that i could use distributed processing. I WANTED this to work.... badly. I honestly do like compressor... I love my drag and drop presets, and I think it's great for Apple codecs

If I could figure out a way to create good prores video from my premiere pro exports, I would probably use it. That's my major barrier right now. I just cant get a good ProRes transcode from my Premiere Pro edited AVCHD footage.

If you have any suggestions on how to transcode to prores, I'm truly all ears. Not one huge file that I created looked good... probably due to lack of Quicktime codec options in AME. But from what I'm hearing, you're rocking out in FCP7 and you have ProRes footage from the moment that you logged and transferred. You're one hurdle past where I'm starting.

Right now, I just don't have a good basis for comparison... I can't get a good "Source" movie for compressor, and my 600 kbps video from AME is looking mighty nice (for my horribly restricted data rate). I'm just not sure I need to complicate it and eat up more hard drive space.

Sure.... transcode before you bring into the editor and then youre files are 150 times the size that they need to be for editing. Having filled up about 5 dfferent 4tb drives even after media manager, I'm done with that. How does a 64gb memory card filled turn into 450 gb when logged and transferred? It's too much.

NAS is related to distributed processing because you can't simply expect your Mac's to efficiently access a drive simply because it's shared.

For example, I have a 12tb G-Speed drive... the fastest connection I can provide to that drive is a Firewire 800 from my MacPro. That means that everyone is limited to that connection speed, as opposed to having the ability to connect directly to the data with a 1gb ethernet connection... wayyyyyyyyyy faster. That's multiple computers with a dedicated lighning fast connection, instead of everyone sharing one single moderate connection.

Additionally, if my editor is working and I restart my computer with the shared drive... media disconnect for him. I'm essentially tied to his activities. Beyond that, even if we share a project, you have to reconnect media from every computer you use because the path of referenced media is changed... instead of:

/gspeed/media being the source for media (if I saved it on my home computer), everyone needs to reconnect to:

macpro/shared/gspeed/media... this is a huge headache when multiple people are working on projects.

The NAS drive allows the absolute fastest, uninterruptable connection to data... my transcoding time has been cut down to about a FIFTH of what it was. You can do this through a normal shared folder, but depending on the hardware involved in your network, you might find yourself incredibly limited.