"Virual Clusters" on Mac Pro - more Compressor grunt

this may be old news to you MacPro users,
but here it is anyway:

"If you?re lucky enough to have a MacPro, Quad or Octo, you?re probably not taking advantage of its real processing power....."

[www.benscottproductions.com]


nick

Nick, I saw that article and tried it -- Compressor has never been faster! I've been encoding MPEG-2 files for DVD in better than real time performance: 90 minute programs have been encoding in about 70-80 minutes, and that's dual-pass. Compared to the regular cluster process I can see all 4 cores running at near maximum instead of 50% or so...

Only issue I've had was when I tried to make an H.264 file with Timecode burn and the Virtual Cluster rejected it. Seemed like it took issue with adding a filter (the TCG) for some reason.

JK

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SCQT! Self-contained QuickTime ? pass it on!

"Compressor has never been faster!"

great ! i'll try it out on a system i use occasionally.

"Seemed like it took issue with adding a filter (the TCG) for some reason. "

pitty.
i wont need that too much, though, i hope.
is that the only filter you've tried?


nick

I set it up as instructed on the 8 core 8GB RAM machine I use at work. I tried to export from compressor using the cluster setup and continued to get the following message.

Status: Failed - HOST [Josh.local] Final Cut Pro generated an error or unexpectedly quitUser aborted Media Server.

I wasn't sure if I am doing something incorrect or possibly there is a problem with one or more of the processors. The machine is only two months old. Thanks for any and all help and I'm very happy I found this forum. Full of great info. Thanks!

Josh M.
editor/videographer
Imagination Unlimited Inc.
Orlando, Florida

Did you Export to Compressor from within Final Cut? I don't know if that's the issue but I've been exporting SCQT movies first and then dropping those into Compressor.

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Well funny you should bring that up. I got one out through the FC timeline and one as a SCQT. It seems to work sometimes and then other times it just decides it doesn't want to do it. Downloaded a widget to watch the processors. You can see a significant difference and it is quite fantastic. Gonna keep doing the SCQT way as you mentioned. Thanks.


Josh M.

"SCQT"

ooh, a new term!
haven't heard that one before!

would you pronounce that "Squirt"?


nick

ha. maybe SQUAT.

Got tired of having to type out "self-contained"...

I'm thinking SQUIT

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Got tired of having to type out "self-contained"...

sure, but then josh picked it up and ran with it,
like it was a term he'd been using all his life.

that's the blingo of lingo for you.


nm

Hey I am not trying to take any sort of credit for the acronym. I was just excited about getting all the processors to work and now we've tumbled down this road of abbreviations. But yes....I will use SCQT when the moment is just right. Maybe we should now use it with this...SCQT?. I cannot pay for royalties on this. I just can't. I am only a poor editor.

jm

It's okay, I won't demand residuals.

But if I start seeing SCQT t-shirts at LAFCPUG meetings I'm going to get pissed

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SCQT! Self-contained QuickTime ? pass it on!

coffee mugs? I self-contained my quicktime movie and all I got was this....( the hits just keep on coming!) It's 6:01 e.s.t. and I need to go home as you can tell by the horrible jokes

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But if I start seeing SCQT t-shirts at LAFCPUG meetings I'm going to get pissed

hmmmm - could be loads of money in this. Kind of like Fake Steve Jobs catch phrase "SIOOMA"

Michael Horton
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Greetings,

I don't know if anyone had this grunt before, but, Compressor
crashes at each attempt to use after an upgrade on my
Mac G4.

What to do?


Jiivanii

Start a new thread Jiivanii. And re-install Compressor.

Michael Horton
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I will have to investigate the new thread start.
I have reinstalled compressor a hundred times with and without the upgrade from the original disk. Including removing the ProApps FCP file and to no avail.


Jiivanii

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nick