Excessively large files with Compressor on High Sierra

It's fixed in Compressor 4.4! Well, at least for me with one project exported from FCPX.

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Yes, it works again!!! :-) Update 4.4 fixed it!

I believe if one waited for the High Sierra update for the video pro apps next week just before the FCP Creative Summit in Cupertino, one would get an app that functions properly with HS. There are a ton of issues with all video pro apps and HS at this time, contrary to the statement Apple posted saying they're already compatible. They've not had HS updates yet, one more week, until then, it's all just beta testing...

Bingo - For my needs I have found a perfect workaround for compressing to 1080p at 15Mbps, suitable for Vimeo and Youtube.

1) Export master file from FCPX

2) Import master file into iMovie and Share to Vimeo or Youtube

Job done (for me at least)

Hope this helps somebody

Andy

Please post a screenshot of the batch Inspector video pane so we can verify your settings.

Open the output file that you applied those compression settings to in MediaInfo and post a screenshot of the report.

Russ

I just tried with the presets for Apple-Devices. You have some possibilities to adjust your settings there too. Set the Bitrate to 16000 kBit/s. And this is what I got:

This could at least be a workaround ...

Same problem here.

We have trash preferences of compressor and did not help.

We have 4 Mac Pro Late 2013

3 of them have been updated to High Sierra and all of them have that problem. No matter wich presets ( Default or Custom) we use, the exported file have a huge file size than estimated.

The remaining Mac Pro with Sierra compress with the correct estimated file size.

Yes, I just upgraded to High Sierra a few weeks ago, and this is burning me too. The resulting files' bitrates are wildly out of line with what I have configured in Compressor. For example, a 3Mbps preset is creating 10Mbps files.

Hi,

When I previously said I have found a perfect workaround for compressing to 1080p at 15Mbps, suitable for Vimeo and Youtube.

1) Export master file from FCPX

2) Import master file into iMovie and Share to Vimeo or Youtube

....may I expand on this.

You can also export a perfectly compressed file to your Mac and select the bit rate and either quick encode or multi pass encode settings.

I imagine this is what Apple would have advised us if the information had been reported on this thread.

I hope this helps.

199 Mb/sec?

It would help to see a screen shot of just the video pane of the Inspector.

Thx.

Russ

I had a discussion on the same theme over at the FCPX Forum.

Take a look:

Exported Videos much too large in High Sierra

I tried with the cloud-generator too, and the problem remained

Output in Sierra:

Output in High Sierra:

The project in which the problem first occured was also with footage from a GH4 - but shot in 1080/50p.

But the project for the screenshots above was done only with the cloud-generator and no imported footage.

Just throwing my hat in the ring that I have this issue as well. I had to roll back to Sierra. This issue, along with an issue where my Mac Pro won't wake from sleepif both my monitors are plugged in and turned on was too much for me to deal with during production.