I know this may seem like a silly question, but i cannot find the answer to it anywhere. Some projects take ages to get past this stage, others don't. What is media encoder doing whilst displaying "Reading XMP..."? One project in particular stays on that for a very long time (it hasn't yet got past it and it's been ten minutes!) - it is a 3 hour long timeline with DSLR footage etc, but right now i am only trying to render out the first 2 minutes of it as a test. Do XMP files become corrupt, could this be why it sometimes gets stuck on reading xmp for a long time?
I am running a custombuilt macpro (it works perfectly fine!!) with an i7 3.9GHz CPU, 16gb ram and a geforce gtx560ti gfx card on Lion 10.7.5, I have no plans to upgrade to Mountain Lion as I already tried and it slowed my system down to the pace of a snail.
Any help is much appreciated!