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Any luck with distributed processing?
Hi, All,
Anyone having good luck with distributed processing and Compressor? I ran a 12-hour compression using two networked machines and it cut the time to 6.5 hours, but it threw a lot of flashing black and green bars into the rendered clip. Fairly exciting stuff visually, but not what I had actually shot and edited. It made me miss a deadline, so I don’t want to keep trying unless people are having success. How about it?
Thanks,
Mike
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1 Reply
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Mike,
We’ve been experimenting with the new compressor for the past week. I can tell you that we’ve had some SPECTACULAR results and quite a few “crash and burns”. We’re harnessing over 30 G-5’s and it’s reducing our rendering from hours to literally just a few minutes.
For us, this is a HUGE improvement. Unfortunately, we’re experiencing a fair amount of random “hangs” where a small portion of the render just doesn’t connect. However, when it does work, it’s so fast it’ll make your head spin.
I would suggest that you keep trying with different configurations and settings and see what your resutls are. NEVER, and I mean NEVER count on this “speed bump” to make a deadline. The minute you do that it WILL fail.
Another huge improvement is the ability of DVD SP to add a timecode burn in the process of burning a DVD. For us, our review and approval DVDs have to have timecode. Previously, that meant creating a specific QT just for the timecode burn in. For an hour show, that meant almost another hour. Now, we’re able to combine this into one step, AND render BOTH the DVD and an h.264 for our web based review and approval simultaneously. For us, if we can shake out the bugs in this version of Compressor, we will experience a tremendous leap forward in workflow productivity.
Mark
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