[Chris Baldwin]

WOW!!

A link to a video tutorial!

That’s gotta be the most helpful think I’ve ever received online through cow!

I also appreciate the lionk to the critique of cluster’s preformance. Haven’t read it yet but I will!

Chris

[Chris Baldwin]

I’d love to be able to boost my encoding performance of Compressor. So creating a cluster will do this? I wonder to what effect?

Its gonna cost between $7000 to $10000 to get a new quad core with 4gigs of ram and some other hardware I’d like to upgrade to.

Buying a used Dual Core PowerPC G5 and clustering it with my current G5 is gonna cost me about $2500.

Is there any way to determine what type of perfomance boost I can expect from encoding duties? If its minimal maybe its just not worth it, but if I can cut 6hour exports in half or so that’d be GREAT!

Do you think I’m chasing my tail or is clustering G5’s a valid value solution?

I wonder if there are any links that describe setting up this cluster?

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Baldwin]

I found burried in the back alleys of the internet that Hard drives that have been formatted as FAT32 (meaning they were once used connected to a PC) are then limited to file sizes of 4 gigs.

{error -1309 fileBoundsErr: file’s EOF offset mark or size is too big}

See this page for people who knew more about this than me…

https://whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/560173.html

Soooooooo some more research online leads me to our own Ken Stone’s expaination of this and how to format the drives correctly.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

Thanks for the help!

[Chris Baldwin]

It happened again and the error is (Error Code -1309)

[Chris Baldwin]

I don’t want to dominate your attention but, you brought up a question that I’ve been unsatisfied by the answers I’ve gotten so far.

So the SDX900 can shoot 30p and I’ve seen in its menu that it gives the option of progressive or interlace. This seems odd to me since I just chose 30p but whatever, everyone says you still shoot in Interlace even if you pick 30p.

Then I capture it into FCP and once its on the timeline its what? progressive or interlaced? To my knowledge, there is no project setup for 30p like there is for 24p or 24pa. Am I wrong? So if I am just using a project setup of DVCPro50 Anamorphic is that a progressive or interlaced timeline? And then when I output it is it automatically one or the other?

I shot it progressive because its a nicer image to me so how do I make sure I deliver that?

So for the web its ok to have progressive and for Standard Definition DVD’s is Compressor creating a progressive file for that?

THANKS!!!!!!!!

[Chris Baldwin]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for the response. I guess I’m wondering if I shot the program natively in Progressive using an Panasonic SDX900. How do I ensure that when I output it via compressor that it stays progressive? Is that possible even?
So I output the 90 minute program as a H.264 QT hinted stream, 15fps @ 640×360 and the file size is 449MB.

The same setting @ 320×180 produce a 220MB file which I feel is a much more palatable file size to stream but the file can’t be resized in the HTML page which is allocating a 640×360 space.(the client wants this larger size)

[Chris Baldwin]

Thanks Dan, that’s the one.

Expensive isn’t it! $6000 a day not including travel…

pretty great tool though.

[Chris Baldwin]

you don’t think the HDX900 with its firewire port will work with DVRack HD?

[Chris Baldwin]

Thanks for the resoureces.

I am indeed being asked to recreate the video style for a parody.

I haven’t found the discussions yet online but I’m still looking.

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Baldwin]

thanks.

do you remember seeing an add on creative cow for a product that is a handheld 3″lcd device?