Q: Compressor fails on export after transferring to new Mac
The motherboard on my 13" MacBook Pro from mid-2010, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 seems to have died so I had to do a transfer of its hard drive to a new MacBook Pro running Mavericks 10.9.2 and this included Final Cut 6.0.6 with Compressor 3.0.5 both of which worked fine at the point of the motherboard dying on the old MBPro, and I have been able to edit to my heart's content on Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 just fine also on the new one.
I have my custom presets for exports and when I choose to export using Compressor I normally get it to launch, add my custom setting from a set I have for this purpose and away we go.
However, now I had a location warning (it was set to Source although my setting preference was to Desktop on the old MBPro and I hadn't changed it) and when I changed it manually or even automatically (by resetting the default) the export fails.
What could have gone awry in the move of the installed Final Cut Pro 6/Compressor software that causes this failure? If anyone knows- please can you tell me in lay terms as I am beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed by the high learning curve over the past two days. Thank you so much for reading.
(PS: I do have a FCPro 7 upgrade for my retail version of FCPro 6 but hadn't got around to installing it and now just need a familiar sight during this period of editing without also needing to cope with changes there. In case you are wondering if I really mean FCPro 6 and not 7 as mentioned in my "Product")
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Panasonic HVX201 & Final Cut Pro 7
Posted on Sep 16, 2014 8:19 AM
