Any way to Speed up Compressor?

[Patrick Sheffield]

Not so sure about that – Compressor does a much better job of spreading the load to all processors than FCP…

Patrick

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Patrick,
This a very little CPU intensive process. There is no much load to share between processors. We are just writing the same information, pixel by pixel, in a lightly different way. i don’t think this is the kind of process that will benefit much from multi-processor distribution.
In my MBP this process takes 2xRT to be done in FC or in QT. I know that with an Octo-Core would be done in less than RT and without need to set any virtual cluster.
rafael

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[Travis Roop]

awesome thats what I was wondering about! I will try changing the location from var/spool/qmaster on my main hard drive (200gigs) to something on my media drive (2 TB)

thanks again guys!

Travis Roop
Editor
bitMAX Hollywood
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[Charles Mumford]

I know this is a 3 year old thread, but I just ran into the same problem: Compressor filled up my system disk despite the source and destination being an external drive.

Now my system disk has 0kb available and I don’t know where to find the temp files to delete them.

Help?