Upconverting via Kona – 29.97 Anamorphic DV to 23.98 DVC Pro HD

[Lu Nelson]

Go in to your Qmaster settings (assuming you are running Final Cut Studio 2) in your System Preferences and I believe there are further options for the Compressor services that let you run multiple instances of the service. On a quad core machine the optimal number is 3. On an eight core it is 5. This will improve your times quite a bit as it will process your job in parallel segments; but yes it is slow.

However, I don’t think it’s too ridiculous when you consider it’s free as part of FCS2 and the comparable hardware-based realtime alternative is *much* more expensive.