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Faster Render
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[Michael Bloodgood] “A grid is user friendly and is GUI based but it works out about as good as Anna Kournikova: Looks good but doesn’t play very well.”
I have decided to shift my priorities 180 degrees. From this point forward I no longer care if my editing system works, so long as its is warm to the touch, I just want it to look like Anna Kournikova.
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Neither of those options are within my scope. My boss was just looking to wring as much power as possible out of what we have. I am on a quad core intel xenon with 4 gb of ram. and i have the same sitting next to me with 5 gb of ram. Basically i am working on taking files out ot compressor for DVD and Mpeg compression.
A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.
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A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.
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Ah yes, Mpeg compression. Another question how slow is slow to you? How long does it take for you compress say an hour of material.
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[Dan Archer] “Go ahead let me have it. “
Well, it’s time to buzz the tower after you hit the brakes and they fly right by.
In all seriousness, If you are talking about making Mpeg2s, have you setup Compressor for a virtual cluster?
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Right now an hour & seven minutes of DVCPRO HD 720 is taking about an hour and 15 to an hour and 20 minutes, give or take. Also 7 minutes for the matching AC3 file
A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.
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That sounds right to me…
I’m seeing times just that myself.
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Haven´t tried Qmaster my self but your setup of 2 identical machines might be as close to the Ideal combination as possible. I read about someone trying to setup a 2 Macs in Qmaster. One of the machines was the latest and greatest. The other was 2 or 3 year old. As I recall rendering through the Qmaster setup was slower than rendering through the faster of the 2 machines. The problem was that Qmaster split the job in 2 equal sizes. The faster machine finished its part way before the slow machine hit 50% and had to wait until the slower machine has finished. With 2 identical machines that should not be a problem but the only way to find out is to test it.
Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine
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You kids don’t knwo from rendering. whym when I was walking to school in the snow in my bare feet, After Effects (then it was CoSA) took a weekend to render 10 seconds of one effect on one layer.
Visit the Qmaster forum at apple.com discussions.
Qmaster remains a cruel and sick joke.You can even set up Qmaster to run on multiple processors on the same machine.
Like most farm systems, the overhead lost in managing the operation cannot be regained until some kind of baseline is reached. IIRC, you need machines that are at least as ten times as fast your transport system so the processing is not waiting for files to be moving around. Maybe it’s the other way around. You need really fast machines on a really fast network. If the machines aren’t fast enough, you need more of them. If the network is slow or subject to other higher priority traffic from the rest of your coworkers you need even more machines.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Depending on the machine you have or if you have a very fast network available you can try this technique for compressor. Rendering can also be sped up in a similar fashion distributing it on a network. If you go to your System Preferences and select Apple Qmaster, under the ‘Setup’ tab, if you click on Compressor service, then select the ‘Options for selected service…’ button you can select the number of instances to push through compressor. Also make sure if you have say a quad core machine, or rather 8 cores in total, you only push the number of instances to 6. If you push it any higher, you risk making your machine unstable or compressor crapping out on you. What you are effectively telling Qmaster to do, is render utilising those 6 cores to the max and it will push it along a lot faster. If you do this kick it off the network by selecting Services and cluster controller. If you select ‘Quickcluster with services’, it is looking for another computer but in reality you need to be on a fibre channel network to get maximum benefit. Also click the Start Sharing, so it thinks it is on a network, but it is really only using it’s internal cores to compress the footage.
G5 Dual 2.3GHZ
2.5GB DDR SDRAM 400MHZ
Mac OS 10.5.1
2 x 20″ Apple Cinema Display
128MB ATI Graphics
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