• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  anyone combine computers for faster render time?

  Posted by Redman on November 14, 2005 at 10:59 pm

  does this work? do you need special software? i was told you do it thru cat 5/network port.

  Michael Alberts replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Monahan

  November 15, 2005 at 1:48 am

  WIth FCP? Nope. Write up a feature request. You can use more than one machine to encode with Compressor though.

  Kevin Monahan
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  Michael Alberts

  November 15, 2005 at 4:18 pm

  Qmaster, which comes with a standard FCP 5, DVDSP 4 or FCP Studio install will allow you to create a cluster for faster render times in Shake, Maya and other Unix apps. It also allows for faster encoding or transcoding from within Compressor. We’ve got four G5 machines set up in a simple cluster with our server acting as the cluster controller. It just rips though those MPEG-2 encodes now. H.264 encoding is almost bearable now.

  As Kevin mentioned above, FCP still does not take advantage of this feature. Some day possibly. It’s not for a lack of asking. Heck, FCP still can’t even do background rendering, even though OS X if fully multi threaded.

  Michael Alberts
  Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

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