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Compressor Repair - Repairs broken Compressor / Qmaster

Cool little app:

   * Checks for missing Qmaster files.

   * Checks for incorrect permissions and fixes them.

   * Resets Qmaster.

   * Manually launches qmasterd.

   * Trashes Compressor preferences (optional).

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Compressor: Troubleshooting basics

If Compressor isn't starting up properly or performing normally, try these basic troubleshooting steps to remedy the situation. Please note that these steps aren't exhaustive, and are not intended to cover any specific issue. They are fundamental, basic steps that are most effective in getting Compressor into good working order, and are the steps most often suggested by AppleCare Technical Support. [From Compressor: Troubleshooting basics]

Compressor troubleshooting.

Compressor: Troubleshooting basics

Enough people have problems with compressor that I thought this was worth posting.

Compressor: Cannot submit job from Batch Window

Compressor: Cannot submit job from Batch Window

In some situations submitting a job in Compressor fails even though a valid source, preset, and destination have been added.

Symptom

The Submit button is dimmed in Compressor's Batch window, or a message appears stating 'Unable to connect to background process' when submitting a job. This can occur due to an issue during Compressor's installation.

To prevent this, either completely disable or temporarily remove third-party antivirus software or disk utilities which may run background processes during Compressor's installation.

Solution

Compressor 2

If this issue occurs with Compressor 2, go to /Library/Receipts and, if found, drag the following files to the Trash:

QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component: Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 files is not supported

QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component: Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 files is not supported:

Unsupported MPEG-2 Media Types

• Playback of 4:2:2 profile MPEG-2 streams

• Playback of transport streams (which combine audio and video with independent time bases)

• AC3 audio (audio is not decoded)

• Ripped DVD content (content from a DVD video disc saved to another drive)"

WMV-9 Component - Video

WMV-9 Component - Video: "About WMV-9 Component Lets you import, view, and export WMV-9 files with QuickTime. It support export to any file format that QuickTime supports and WMV-9 Component 2.0 also runs on both PPC and x86 Macintosh computers.

The evaluation version has no limits in regards to import and viewing of VMW-9 files, making it the first Windows Media plug-in for QuickTime that runs on both x86 and PPC hardware."

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Building Custom Presets in Compressor 2

Building Custom Presets in Compressor 2: " Building Custom Presets in Compressor 2 By Ken Stone"

Compressor 2: Certain presets may set the wrong frame rate in a converted clip

Compressor 2: Certain presets may set the wrong frame rate in a converted clip: " Compressor 2: Certain presets may set the wrong frame rate in a converted clip Compressor 2 offers high-quality transcoding using advanced image analysis when converting from one format to another. However, if you try to transcode from PAL to NTSC using one of the NTSC presets in the Advanced Format Conversions category, the resulting QuickTime movie file may not have the correct frame rate (29.97 FPS).

As a workaround, do this:

Apple - Discussions - Quality Issues with Compressor 2.0.1

Apple - Discussions - Quality Issues with Compressor 2.0.1: " Posts: 1 Has anyone had any contact with Apple engineers about the problems folks are having with macro-blocking artifacts with Compressor since 2.x appeared?

Is Apple aware of this serious step-back in reliability and quality?

We too are experiencing this and it is very troublesome. Really takes the fun out of doing this type of work.

I would like hear from those who have never had the problem or who had the problem and resolved without reverting to older versions.

I think the one common factor among those experiencing the problem is that we are all working in DV25 (NTSC or PAL).

Discussion on Apple's boards about Compressor headaches

Compressor 2: Certain presets may set the wrong frame rate in a converted clip

Compressor 2: Certain presets may set the wrong frame rate in a converted clip: "Compressor 2 offers high-quality transcoding using advanced image analysis when converting from one format to another. However, if you try to transcode from PAL to NTSC using one of the NTSC presets in the Advanced Format Conversions category, the resulting QuickTime movie file may not have the correct frame rate (29.97 FPS)."