Carmine Falzarano
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These are your basic text and a few diagrams. I’m guessing the png with a graphic background to fill the frame is the way to go.
Thanks everyone!
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For some reason, the service pack doesn’t recognize the codec of any of my clips. XDCAM EX is what they’re showing as in FCP.
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Yes, a self contained QT movie with current settings is what I sent to Compressor. I never use the “send to compressor” option because I’ve had issues with it in the past.
I’ll check out the service pack, maybe it can repair my file or possibly locate the issue. Thanks!
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Thanks! I’m sure that will help.
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So as you can see in my previous post, I get that list. I’ve selected them all and clicked “ok”. Though I’m not sure if that’s correct. I think everything else is correct.
Again, thanks so much for your time. I’ve also downloaded the pdf on distributed processing and will read that to see if I can set up my other MacPro on a network with this one for large renders in the future.
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Sorry I don’t know why my image didn’t upload…
I got the 2nd part fine. When I click the “options for selected service” button, I don’t get that “number” you’re getting, instead I get this list.
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Rob,
Here’s what I get when I click that option, keep in mind I only have the column for Compressor selected and not the one for Shake. I don’t think this makes a difference however.
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Ok Rob…
The only part of this post that’s confusing for me is the menu for “number of instances”. In that menu I only see “This Computer” several times but no actual number. I selected all of them and hit ok. I don’t know if that’s what you meant.
Following the changes in Qmaster and some others suggested here I just submitted a batch of two 1080i files to be compressed. One is about 5 min long and the other about 35 minutes long.
I used the “Best 90 min” template with the following changes:
Video format tab- Field Dominance: Bottom First.
Frame Controls: On.
Resize Filter: Best.
Output fields: Same as source.
Deinterlace: Best.
Adaptive Details: checked.Also, the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 template unchanged.
This has produced a time remaining of 16:02.27 as the batch only started about 10 minutes ago.
Again, thanks for all your help. I’ve been in the business over 12 years and have never run into a problem like this.
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I believe so. I’ve only had this Mac for a few months now and this is the biggest renter job I’ve done with it. I’ve done a little research on it so as far as I can tell it is…
Opened System Preferences
Selected Apple Qmaster
Under share this computer as: QuickCluster with Services (selected)
Under Services “Share” and “Managed” are checked and the description reads “Distributed processing for Compressor.
Currently (during the render) all options are grayed out except for the “stop sharing” button.
In the Batch Monitor:
I currently have two jobs running. One on “My Mac Pro Cluster” and one on “This Computer”. The one on “This computer” is a single file about 45 min. long that I started yesterday, its currently giving me a 105 hour remaining job completion.
The second is a batch of 4 files on the “My Mac Pro Cluster” with a total video length of about 1 hr 47 min and is showing a 66 hour remaining job completion.
So I’m not sure if I have the cluster set up properly. I thought of quitting the longer compression (This computer) but don’t want to lose the work already done.
I know that may sound confusing, I hope I made it explained it well enough.
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Thanks again everyone for your insights. One question here that I forgot to ask specifically. I have one track that’s about 48 min. long. With the current settings it gave me an estimated completion time of 38 hours.
The last track was in the neighborhood of 5 minutes, with a est. completion time of about 8 hours.
Is this normal? I’ve encoded a ton of DVDs in the past over several years but as you can tell, this is my first attempt at delivering 1080i content on a SD DVD.
I’m trying a small batch with some of your suggestions.