[Jason Smith]

I tried a test last night on your suggestion for a 15sec. clip..add v2 track with graphic, select drop shadow, bar goes red on top in timeline. From there I could not click on the next tab, the next open sequence? And batch export is greyed out?

For your Quad core you can get 4 cores all working in compressor. Here is how:

System Preferences – QMaster – Select Compressor under the Service tab and then click the Options for selected service tab. Number of Instances should show 1. Change this number to 4 Click the bottom right ‘start sharing’ tab.

NOTE: To use this setting you must select the new cluster when you hit submit in Compressor.

Example: Hit submit…setting importance is high as normal…where it says “use this computer”…click the drop down and pick the ‘cluster’

You are all set! Watch your compression work with ALL 4 Cores! And at Blazing Speeds. Hope this helps and if you know anyone on the render issue please pass my question on. Thanks.

[Jason Smith]

Tried to use Export Batch but it is greyed out when the sequence has a red bar on top. It would have been awesome to render 5 open sequences and export them all at once. Even if it still took 5 hours, I would not have to go back to the computer each hour. Alas, this didn not happen.

Note: in compressor I load up 10 files and compress in my sleep. Videos that took 10 hours on my macbook pro take 1 hour on the octo-core as I’ve set up all 8 cores to work…using 90% of the system. Compressor setup is Great!

Just need help with Rendering and speeding that up.