NextWaveDV Open Air Cinema Foundation DSLR Cinema and Video Journalism The Banff Centre - Arts, education, and conferences in Banff, Alberta, Canada Speeding up Compressor Is Compressor taking too long to encode? Here are some tips to speed it up. Don't export directly to Compressor from Final Cut Pro Although sending your timeline directly to Compressor may seem faster because it cuts out the step of exporting as a QuickTime movie, it is much slower overall because Compressor needs to request each frame one-by-one from Final Cut Pro instead of just reading the data out of the movie clip. It gets even slower if you're using Frame Controls or doing multi-pass encoding. Just go to File > Export > QuickTime Movie (not QuickTime Conversion) and make sure Setting is set to Current Settings and Recompress All Frames is switched off. Here's a tip - if most of your timeline is already rendered, deselect Make Movie Self-Contained. Once the file is exported, drag it into Compressor and set up your batch as normal. Only use Frame Controls where necessary Perform heaving-lifting in a separate pass to the encoding But there is an easier way. Here's how to do it:1.
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