How can a 90-minute movie take 500 HOURS to compress?
Hi - I am trying to make a Blu-Ray of a feature film I've cut with a 5.1 surround mix. I still use FCP7 and Compressor 3.5.3. I've successfully created a 5.1 ac3 track but am now trying to create an MPEG-2 file to match. I've been following the workflow described by Danny Daneau at this blog -- http://www.theatticdoormovie.com/blog/2009/mac-bluray/ -- and it successfully worked on another project. But this time the QT movie I've brought into Compressor (ProRes 422 HQ, 1920x1080) is taking an extraordinarily long time to convert. One pass I tried brought up the remaining time to 1200 hours! I'm pretty sure the settings I'm using in the screen shot below match the ones in the blog post, and as I say, I successfully used this method two weeks ago. (I have a 2009 MBP running Snow Leopard, and Activity Monitor shows that the 8GB of RAM are not being unusually taxed.) Any thoughts at ALL? Many thanks.