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Q: how long should it take to compress a 3.6gb video for vimeo

How long should it take to compress video using Vimeo settings?

I am trying to compress my 3.6 GB video for use on Vimeo. I made the movie using Final Cut Pro 7 and am compressing with Compressor.
Using the drag and drop method, I am using the basic Vimeo specs given in Compressor.

H. 264 video with stereo AAC audio
44.100 kHz

Format: QT

Extension: .mov

1280 X 720
Pixel aspect ratio: square

FR: 23.976

Multi-pass and frame re-order: on

 

How long should I expect the compression to take? I'm a bit worried because I followed the same procedure yesterday, let it run all night, and got up this morning to a "failure" notice.

 

Thanks so much!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 26, 2015 11:30 AM

by Russ H,Solvedanswer
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A:

Hard to even guess without more info.

 

How long is your movie?

 

What are your computer's specs?

 

Are you using Compressor 3.5 or a later version?

 

Russ

Posted on Aug 26, 2015 11:35 AM

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Q: how long should it take to compress a 3.6gb video for vimeo

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  • by Russ H,Solvedanswer

    Russ H Russ H Aug 26, 2015 11:35 AM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 26, 2015 11:35 AM in response to ellinfromalabama

    Hard to even guess without more info.

     

    How long is your movie?

     

    What are your computer's specs?

     

    Are you using Compressor 3.5 or a later version?

     

    Russ

  • by ellinfromalabama,

    ellinfromalabama ellinfromalabama Aug 26, 2015 1:15 PM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 26, 2015 1:15 PM in response to Russ H

    Hi, Russ,

     

    I'm using Compressor 3.5.3.

    The movie is 80 minutes long.

    My computer is a MAC os X, version 10.6.8.

     

    It might be helpful to know, too, that I submitted the movie at 11:40 CST (about 3 1/2 hours ago). The gray bar appears to be moving, but the time remaining continues to climb -- now at over 9 hours remaining.

     

    Thanks for your help.

  • by Russ H,Helpful

    Russ H Russ H Aug 26, 2015 1:54 PM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 26, 2015 1:54 PM in response to ellinfromalabama

    Please click on the Apple logo at the uppermost left of your display and then click About This Mac, It will say something like iMac 27inch and a year. What does it say for your Mac?

     

    Russ

  • by ellinfromalabama,

    ellinfromalabama ellinfromalabama Aug 26, 2015 2:21 PM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 26, 2015 2:21 PM in response to Russ H

    Russ,

    It only says MACbook Pro 5,2. Is this what you want?

    Thanks.

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 26, 2015 2:53 PM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 26, 2015 2:53 PM in response to ellinfromalabama

    It's apparently a 17inch with Core2 Duo processor, which is a fine machine but not as speedy as MBPs with more recent chips.

     

    The encoding times still seem excessive. I was thinking 5-6 hours at the outside (3 to 4 times real time).

     

    In QuickTime Player please open the video file that you exported from fCP. Press Command-i to bring up the Inspector, What does it say about format?

     

    Russ

  • by ellinfromalabama,

    ellinfromalabama ellinfromalabama Aug 26, 2015 3:52 PM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 26, 2015 3:52 PM in response to Russ H

    Russ,

    I'm not sure whether this is what you want: I had to open another version of the movie in order to open it with QuickTime Player. The information given there about format is "16-bit integer (Little Endian) Stereo, 48,000 kHz".

     

    One problem may be that I was not able to export the movie using QuickTime Conversion, so I simply used "Send" to send it directly to Compressor. From there I dragged and dropped the Vimeo settings to begin the submission. It seems to be stuck on 9 hours.

     

    I was not able to export the movie using QuickTime Conversion where I manually entered the specs because I kept getting an Unrendered prompt. However, several times I had selected the entire film and attempted to render it all again. Nonetheless, once in Quicktime Conversion, the red bars would appear and I would get the prompt.

     

    Perhaps I should have made a .mov and then opened it with Compressor, etc. I'm wondering whether I should cancel and start over?

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 26, 2015 5:05 PM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 26, 2015 5:05 PM in response to ellinfromalabama

    Try exporting from FCP as a quickTime Movie (not conversion), current settings. Bring that file into Compressor, Place in and out points on the mini timeline in the Preview winder to give you a 10 minute duration, Apply the preset and let us know who long it took to process, (Hopefully, it will not be more than 3X real time.)

     

    russ

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 26, 2015 5:15 PM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 26, 2015 5:15 PM in response to ellinfromalabama

    Also, I meant to add that in the legacy versions of Final Cut and Compressor, Send to Compressor was an especially slow workflow.

     

    Russ

  • by ellinfromalabama,

    ellinfromalabama ellinfromalabama Aug 27, 2015 6:44 AM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 27, 2015 6:44 AM in response to Russ H

    Thanks so much, Russ,

    The compression seemed to be moving at last, so I let it run and it was successful. I think you're right -- the send directly to Compressor was not the way to go.

    I appreciate your help!

    Ellin

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 27, 2015 7:31 AM in response to ellinfromalabama
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    Aug 27, 2015 7:31 AM in response to ellinfromalabama

    ellinfromalabama wrote:

    the send directly to Compressor was not the way to go.

    Hey Ellin.

    Something to file away for the future that may be helpful.. the very latest generation of pro apps (FCP X 10.2, Compressor 4,2, and Motion) are optimized for the new hardware and Send to Compressor is now quite speedy.

     

    Best of luck.

     

    Russ