This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Squeeze locks up

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Squeeze locks up

Am working on Mac OS 10.6.8, so it's not the file size issue.

Could be the copying thing. I'll let it run this time. I have been
stopping it after about 20 minutes.

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On 10/16/11 6:45 AM, Nick Hrycyk wrote:
>
> Squeeze works/writes to a temp file. Sounds like what you are seeing
> is Squeeze writing the "real" file to the drive. Processor usage
> dropping to zip would be normal, cuz all thats going on is copying one
> file then renaming it. You can verify this by opening a window to the
> drive you are writing to and you see a file with a temp name and a
> file with the name you would expect to see. The final file will keep
> increasing in size. If you are doing an uncompressed or any large
> file output, this part of the 'squeeze' can take as long as the
> compression. Freaked me out the first time it was happening also.
>
> Nick Hrycyk
>
> --- On Sat, 10/15/11, Mark Myers <MarkM@SR-Pro.com
> <mailto:MarkM%40SR-Pro.com>> wrote:
>
> From: Mark Myers <MarkM@SR-Pro.com <mailto:MarkM%40SR-Pro.com>>
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Squeeze locks up
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 9:47 PM
>
>
>
> Ok -
>
> I got my EX 3 workflow down. Edit, video mixdown, export reference
>
> file, compress in Squeeze.
>
> Having a major problem with Squeeze though. One file it just refuses to
>
> compress. It's a 45 minute long presentation and when Squeeze gets
>
> within 3 minutes of the end of the compression, processor usage goes
>
> almost to nothing, and it just sits there. Compression is 2 or 3 hours
>
> so it's a major pain when this happens. Everything else compressed just
>
> fine. I can let it go, and it just sits there indefinitely between 2
>
> and 3 minutes left.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on that one?
>
> Mark
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