Compression jobs crashing!

Like other recent reviewers, I’ve found that the latest version of Compressor running on Mavericks crashes at various times during usage. I was quite frustrated, as I’ve been unable in recent days to get any of my videos (produced with Final Cut Pro) crunched down and ready to upload to YouTube. Last night, a friend suggested using FCP to “share” those videos to my local filesystem using the “Master File” option, with the codec set to Apple ProRes 422 HQ. Further, he suggested using the open source HandBrake application to compress those “shared” (very large) mov files into mp4. I would like to report that solution works wonderfully for my needs. I look forward to using Compressor again, once Apple has fixed the bugs it introduced with the latest update. Until then, it’s FCP -> ProRes 422 HQ -> HandBrake -> mp4 -> YouTube, which is not a bad workflow in its own right.

michaelsbradleyjr about Compressor