[Justin Mcclusky]

Yeah that sounds about right.

In the end I managed to reformat the out-of-the-box MBP and reinstall just FC. I’m really not sure what was wrong, but now it seems to work just fine. The export to a standard DV format took only 2 to 3 hours.

I really appreciate all the help from everyone!

Now to finagle Qmaster into working properly…

[Justin Mcclusky]

Yep I have repaied directories and everything. It still gave me the extended time.
Are there amy other new MBP users out thereexperiencing this phenomenon?

[Justin Mcclusky]

2gb of Ram in both machines, set up in parallel.

All updates have been installed as well.

I have tried to set up an actual cluster, as well as a virtual cluster. The virtual cluster AND the real cluster (between the old and new machine). Unfortunately the clustering does not play very nicely. Consistently it gives me errors of not being able to connect and ‘unexpectedly quit’ messages for various portions of the split up batch. Any ideas on that? I’ve heard mixed reports on that working at all.

I have a feeling that it may be how the new MacBook Pros handle the heavy lifting of Final Cut. Specifically, it’s crunching a semi high-def file in H264 and having major problems dealing with that. I don’t have QT pro on the new machine, although I’m skeptical that is the problem.

At this point I’m debating on returning this machine for a 2nd Gen MBP with equal or higher specs. It’s a real shame. However I’ll be reformatting and reporting on the fruits of that later.

Thanks again

[Justin Mcclusky]

The original deliverables were given as straight up digital media:
mp4
960×544
aac stereo
average bitrate of 1866kbp/s

What i’ve done is cut it in that, now I’m exporting to DV/DVCPro. Each time I try again, it spits out 32 Hours!

So frustrating. I’ll try using diskwarrior and the like to see if that helps, then report back here with results. Thanks for that advice.

Any other ideas?