I have a 2013 MBP with an SSD. I'm normally encoding to an external USB 3 or Thunderbolt drive. My power saver settings are set to turn the laptop monitor off after 2 hours of inactivity. Whenever this happens, my encoding either pauses or slows to a crawl. When I wake the machine back up, it will pick back up and keep moving at its normal speed (which is very quick.)
To be clear, I do not have the laptop set to put any drives to sleep, it's just the monitor that goes black.
Any ideas?