Compressor 3.5 and less than stellar render times

[Scott Sheriff]

I wonder if Snow Leopard in combination with FCS3 will fix this?
It’s coming out today.

[Graham Hutchins]

I was hoping the same thing, although I don’t have any reason to believe it would. I forgot to mention that I’m also on 10.5.7, if that matters.

Are you experiencing slower render times as well?

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Ben Holmes]

I would suggest doubling your RAM to 12Gb, as it’s generally advisable to have more than 1Gb per core. Although I have no idea why the newer version is less efficient at utilising what you have, the amount of memory allocated per core or thread is relevant in most distributed processing.

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[Graham Hutchins]

Yup, couldn’t agree more.

I hit the wall big time exporting a pretty complex comp out of After Effects about a week ago, but as you’ve noted, and in my experience with the previous version, I wasn’t having this issue.

Perhaps the length of the thing may have something to do with it. Most of the stuff I transcode is usually less than 5 minutes, whereas the project I’m currently working on (color on a feature) has clips in 15-20 minute chunks.

It still feels like even for longer stuff, 3.0 just stayed full tilt the whole render where now, it’s all over the place.

Hmmm.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[David Roth weiss]

[Graham Hutchins] “I recently upgraded to FC Studio 3 and with it, Compressor 3.5. I’m running a 2.26 GHz eight core, 6 GB of RAM and have the Qmaster configured for distributed renders with 16 threads. “

How did you perform the upgrade? Did you do a clean install, or upgrade over the top of FCS2? If it was the latter, that could easily account for any issues.

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[Shane Ross]

Have you turned on QMaster to take advantage of all your processors? if so, you need to change the “Cluster Options” pop-up in Compressor Preferences to “Never copy source to cluster.” That NEW feature is to make sure that all computers on the cluster have access to the media (if you use Reference Movies) and compressor will COPY all of the assets to a central location, THEN start compressing.

annoying.

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[Graham Hutchins]

Yup, Qmaster is set up and I did the “Never copy source to cluster” pref setting after seeing your post on the Apple forums.

I think David might have nailed it though. I haven’t had the chance to do a fresh OS install before upgrading, so that might be the cause of the issue I’m having. I just need to get this latest project knocked out and then I’ll take my half day to backup and wipe my hard drive and do a proper clean install.

Thanks for your response.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.7
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM