I have tons of older MPEG and h264 videos in Photos eating tons of space, and I'd like to batch reencode them all to use HEVC. I've trying individually "editing" (Right Click -> Edit With -> Compressor) the biggest ones with Compressor and saving the reencodes to the same directory where the originals reside, but Photos doesn't seem to detect the new file and just seems to delete it as soon as the encoding job finishes. Is there a simple process for doing this *within* Photos and Compressor that retains all timestamps and metadata? I don't want to piece together a questionable script with ffmpeg that might miss some metadata I'm not aware of.

Video encoding is a small hobby of mine and, while I'm familiar with HandBrake and have been dipping my toes into the far more capable and complicated world of Avisynth, I only recently learned that Apple apparently has its own encoding utility called Compressor. I like to stick to first-party tools whenever it's practical for me, so I'd love to start using Compressor if it can fit somewhere into my personal workflow. But I'd rather not spend the $50 on it without knowing for sure that it can be useful for me. And there aren't any detailed breakdowns that I've been able to find for it. So my question is, what, if anything, does Compressor offer a user that HandBrake doesn't, and vice versa? Does Compressor have all the same functionality and could just be a drop-in replacement for it altogether? Is it more/less efficient in its encoding? Aside from the cost and the open source vs closed source debate, is there any good reason to use one over the other for someone working exclusively with M1 Mac machines?

When I export a movie from Final Cut Pro to compressor, it begins running just fine. However, it will eventually cause my Mac mini (2018) to start getting graphical glitches (parts of the window or dock will flicker in and out) and eventually the computer will lock up, then shut down. I have 32GB of RAM, of which only 16GB are used, so I don't think it's running out of RAM. I've ran Apple Diagnostics numerous times and it doesn't detect it, nor do I have issues with anything else graphically intensive. My CPU doesn't go above 150℉ [65℃], and the GPU doesn't go above 180℉ [82 ℃]. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I'm getting tired of losing progress on projects (apparently final cut doesn't immediately save) as well as the additional time it takes to render something many times before it actually succeeds. This has started happening while rendering the video (inside Final Cut Pro). Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

I use Apple Compressor to generate 60fps movie clips from sequences of PNG images. I use the HEVC coded with transparency. The resolution of the output movie is the same as of the input pictures, so no resizing is done. Is it safe to ignore the Resize filter?

I use Apple compressor from the command line to generate video clips from sequences of images. Here it looks like the command line command allows for control of the framerate of the output movie, but I can't get things to work. Does anyone know how to do this?

I'm using the Apple compressor app from the command line to generate movies from sequences of images. This works fine, but the relevant command line command just exits before the job is done (while the compressor app carries out the task in the background). Hence one is left wondering when the job is finished. Using top I can check whether Apple compressor is still active, but I was hoping there is an option that let's me know when the job is done (ideally via osascript).

I wanna install python on wine, but encountered the following issue,

$ wine msiexec /i python-2.7.14.msi 

/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.200.3/Common/ChunkCompression.cpp:49: Error: unsupported compressor 8
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.200.3/Libraries/CompressData/CompressData.c:353: Error: Unknown compression scheme encountered for file '/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist'
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.200.3/Common/ChunkCompression.cpp:49: Error: unsupported compressor 8
/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleFSCompression/AppleFSCompression-96.200.3/Libraries/CompressData/CompressData.c:353: Error: Unknown compression scheme encountered for file '/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library/AppExceptions.bundle/Exceptions.plist'
0009:fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
0009:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
0009:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0009:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0009:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0009:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0009:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"WhichUsersDlg" returned 1602

How do I solve it? My machine's version is macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

Im creating an automator service that transcodes all the files within a folder to a compressor preset by running the following shell script: VAR="/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor -batchname MyFirstBatch" for d in "$@"; do filename=$(basename "$d") fname="$(dirname "$d")"/"${filename%.*}" VAR+=" -jobpath "$d" -settingpath /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/Resources/Settings/ProRes/proResHQName.setting -locationpath "$fname".mov" done eval $VAR The problem is that the resulting paths in the string have a **blank space** instead of **backslash and blankspace**, so I want to replace every **" "** in the **d** variable with a **"\ "**. Also, is there any way to omit folders and only consider files? Thank you. Here's a screenshot of my workflow (Get specified Finder Items and Get folder Contents are just for testing purpose, I disable them when using it as a service):

Is there a way to render Autodesk Maya 2017 animation via Compressor 4.3 using 10 iMacs? It was possible in previous versions of Compressor (version 2, version 3 and up to version 4.0.7) There were Qmaster and Qadministrator utilities. But I can't run Compressor 4.0.7 or those utilities on macOS 10.12. A distributed processing is necessary feature for any command line VFX professional application. For instance: *Nuke, Shake, Fusion, Maya, Houdini, Renderman, etc...* I am convinced, there is a workaround to use the distributed processing for CLI applications via Terminal (even if this feature is not explicitly supported in Compressor 4.3 GUI). **P.S. Distributed processing isn't supported in Compressor's GUI since 2013 (from v4.1).** Compressor's versions 4.1, 4,2 and 4.3 have integrated Qmaster's core allowing to process just Final Cut Pro X and Motion batches using shared computers (as instances). Now Compressor is mainly used for transcoding. Look at Qmaster.framework located in: /Applications/Compressor/Contents/Plugins/Compressor/CompressorKit.bundle/Contents/Frameworks To see a list of CLI commands, type this in Terminal: /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor -help