Apple Compressor Queue Stuck – Resolution
So I just started messing with Compressor and Final Cut Sudio and I am impressed so far. I was, however, in Compressor trying to make some movies out of one that I had transferred from a high end camera and I just couldn’t get it to encode for me – it just sat there forever.
I finally realized that a certain file on my external scratch disk (where I was rendering to) was being recreated over and over again. Come to finally find out that compressor delegates it work to the Qmaster service. Apparently I had a ton of jobs in the queue from messing with it before, even though I had deleted them from Compressor. That means that everytime I rebooted, Qmaster would start back up again and try and pickup the queue. I had to search for about an hour until I found the below link, but basically you need to do the following:
Open a terminal window and sudo to root:
sudo su – (then put in your admin password)
cd /var/spool/qmaster/
go INSIDE the randomly numbered subdirectory and remove all files
rm -rf *
Then go inside compressor and choose “Reset Background Processing” and then choose to reset processing and cancel the queue. After a few seconds your jobs should clear out of the queue and never return and Compressor should be back to normal!
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/857850
