I think compressor's filling up my startup disk... at DVinfo.net

Nate Schmidt · November 11th, 2008, 05:49 PM

I'm trying to do some renders with Compressor, working with Uncompressed HD footage, set to render to my internal RAID, but it must be putting some temp files somewhere because my startup disk went from having around 100 gig's free to less than 10. Any ideas?

William Hohauser · November 11th, 2008, 09:58 PM

Did you render all the effects on the timeline?

Nate Schmidt · November 11th, 2008, 10:57 PM

Everything is rendered and exporting, I'm trying to convert my finished movie to an uncompressed HD movie

William Hohauser · November 12th, 2008, 01:34 PM

That's curious. I've never noticed the main drive behaving like that but I've never exported to uncompressed HD before. Are you getting low memory warnings?

Nate Schmidt · November 12th, 2008, 05:09 PM

Yeah, and I used disk inventory X to search my drive and i found big quicktime movie segments and trashed them... so there are definitely some temporary files getting created, now i just have to find out how to change where they go.

William Hohauser · November 12th, 2008, 10:34 PM

What codec is the original timeline? Have you tried exporting a QuickTime movie to an external drive and compressing that without FCP running?

Nate Schmidt · November 17th, 2008, 11:41 AM

The original codec is DVCPro HD 720p. I've edited and exported a Quicktime self contained movie to one of my media drives. I'm trying to use Compressor to up-convert it to 1080p using uncompressed. Final Cut isn't running, just compressor. The only thing stored on my startup disk in relation to this project is the FCP project file. All original footage and renders and finished exports are on a separate media drive.

Shaun Roemich · November 17th, 2008, 12:18 PM

Nate, just in case you haven't tried this:
- In Compressor, after selecting the export parameters, select your project by clicking on the icon in the "box" which will highlight the entire box
- Select Target ==> Destination ==> Other and choose where you would like the output to go

Ethan Cooper · November 17th, 2008, 02:26 PM

Nevermind, I didn't read his later post... my comments didn't apply.

November 11th, 2008, 05:49 PM	#1
Nate Schmidt Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Welland ON Posts: 515	I think compressor's filling up my startup disk... I'm trying to do some renders with Compressor, working with Uncompressed HD footage, set to render to my internal RAID, but it must be putting some temp files somewhere because my startup disk went from having around 100 gig's free to less than 10. Any ideas? __________________ "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

November 11th, 2008, 09:58 PM	#2
William Hohauser Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 2,650	Did you render all the effects on the timeline? __________________ William Hohauser - New York City Producer/Edit/Camera/Animation

November 11th, 2008, 10:57 PM	#3
Nate Schmidt Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Welland ON Posts: 515	Everything is rendered and exporting, I'm trying to convert my finished movie to an uncompressed HD movie __________________ "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

November 12th, 2008, 01:34 PM	#4
William Hohauser Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 2,650	That's curious. I've never noticed the main drive behaving like that but I've never exported to uncompressed HD before. Are you getting low memory warnings? __________________ William Hohauser - New York City Producer/Edit/Camera/Animation

November 12th, 2008, 05:09 PM	#5
Nate Schmidt Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Welland ON Posts: 515	Yeah, and I used disk inventory X to search my drive and i found big quicktime movie segments and trashed them... so there are definitely some temporary files getting created, now i just have to find out how to change where they go. __________________ "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

November 12th, 2008, 10:34 PM	#6
William Hohauser Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 2,650	What codec is the original timeline? Have you tried exporting a QuickTime movie to an external drive and compressing that without FCP running? __________________ William Hohauser - New York City Producer/Edit/Camera/Animation

November 17th, 2008, 11:41 AM	#7
Nate Schmidt Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Welland ON Posts: 515	The original codec is DVCPro HD 720p. I've edited and exported a Quicktime self contained movie to one of my media drives. I'm trying to use Compressor to up-convert it to 1080p using uncompressed. Final Cut isn't running, just compressor. The only thing stored on my startup disk in relation to this project is the FCP project file. All original footage and renders and finished exports are on a separate media drive. __________________ "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

November 17th, 2008, 12:18 PM	#8
Shaun Roemich Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia (formerly Winnipeg, Manitoba) Canada Posts: 4,088	Nate, just in case you haven't tried this: - In Compressor, after selecting the export parameters, select your project by clicking on the icon in the "box" which will highlight the entire box - Select Target ==> Destination ==> Other and choose where you would like the output to go __________________ Shaun C. Roemich Road Dog Media - Vancouver, BC - Videographer - Webcaster www.roaddogmedia.ca Blog: http://roaddogmedia.wordpress.com/

November 17th, 2008, 02:26 PM	#9
Ethan Cooper Trustee Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Houma, La. Posts: 1,400 Images: 5	Nevermind, I didn't read his later post... my comments didn't apply. __________________ ∅ -Ethan Cooper