Apple’s got to be having a laugh at our expense!

[Mark Maness]

It’s a service of Apple QMaster inside your System Preferences window.

Open up System Preferences – click on Apple QMaster. If sharing is on, click the button labeled “Stop Sharing” and tell it 0 minutes to shut down. Highlight the line in serivces labeled Compressor. Click on the button labeled “Options for selected service”. If you have a Mac Pro system – Quad or Octocore, select the number of instances to be 4 for a Quadcore or 8 for an Octocore system. Click “Ok” to close the box. Now at the bottom of the page, click on the “Start Sharing” button to start the services.

You, now, have a virtual cluster built. In Compressor, set all you setting for what you are planning to compress. When you click on “Submit” to start compressing, look at the drop down menu called Cluster. You’ll now see your computer name listed as a cluster. Submit this and you’ll have 4 or 8 processors working on compressing your program to whatever you like.

That’s it!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Ben Scott]

if you have a look at the podcast I have made up for Cow there is a little video on setting up qmaster for quick cluster

also useful to point out to newbies to batching that quicktime reference movies and copying from one drive where media to other physical drive will also drastically improve compressor speeds, as will sending FCP quicktime movie (not self contained and using this temp file into compressor rather than exporting straight from fcp to compresor)

funny to see someone else with my name using benscottproductions as website nothing to do with myself

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ben Scott] “funny to see someone else with my name using benscottproductions as website nothing to do with myself
“

Oh, no sh*t? Wow. I thought that was you.

Jeremy

[Daniel Vockins]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice but I’m still having problems! When I click “system preferences” and then “QMASTER” and then the “compressor” line under “services” I cannot click the “options for selected service” to increase the number of cores. Interestingly, when I click the “rendering” button beneath I can then click the options button to change the number of “instances” for that line. The problem is not related to accidentally not clicking the “stop sharing” button either – sharing is off.

Anyone know why this might be?

[Ben Scott]

sometimes the install of compressor and final cut studio gets screwed, mine did

now there is a fcp uninstaller on the web which is very useful

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or my site at
https://www.benscottarts.co.uk/ – – – – – – – – –