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  Hooking up 2 macs

  Posted by Anthony Faulkner on May 11, 2011 at 12:50 am

  Is there any way to hook up my laptop (17 inch macbook) to my desktop (2x 2.8 14gb ram mac pro) both are running 10.6.7.

  I would like to utilise the laptop to do some of the long renders I have for composite videos.

  I am a network no nothing so any assistance would be appreciated!

  Anthony Faulkner replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Kammes

  May 12, 2011 at 2:16 pm

  I presume when you say ‘render’, you mean rendering in FCP – i.e. adding effects? Or, is this another application? (After Effects, etc.)

  FCP v.1-v.7 does not support distributed rendering. Distributed encoding, via Compressor over an ethernet network, *is* supported. You may also want to look into creating a ‘virtual cluster’ with Compressor, which will greatly speed up encodes & transcodes in Compressor on a single machine. Again, this is NOT rendering….but I wanted to spell them both out if there was any terminology confusion.

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  Anthony Faulkner

  May 13, 2011 at 4:16 am

  Thanks, yeah I was talking about FCP, composite with a bit of color work and a couple red giant effects and I’m getting hour long renders on 5 minute pieces. I encode in telestream episode because I can keep on working while it is chugging away in the background.

  Anything to share the load would be wonderful… Apple…. anyone out there?

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