[Will Griffith]

You may have to reinstall, normally you can select “Compressor” and then
“Options for selected service”, so it sounds like you have a install or configuration problem.

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

Under “share this computer as” what is selected??

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

You must click “Stop Sharing” to the lower right first.

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

Elijah…

Only the two “Share” checkboxes need to be checked.

Before We can help you anymore can you please explain
your situation since it is obviously different than
the thread starter.

What is your FCP/OSX version, sequence settings, and
format you are trying to render?

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

This issue has been covered many…many…many times.
Please do a quick search or just look down the main FCP page.

Correct Qmaster setup…

open system preferences>select Apple Qmaster> Select “Stop Sharing” >
Select “QuickCluster With Services” > select “Options for Selected Service >
change number of instances to 8 > Click “Start Sharing”

I will warn you that 4gb will not get you too far with 8 cores. It is most
efficient with 2gb per core. Try 4 instances instead of 8 if 8 is still slow.
HDV is also just dog slow as well…no matter what machine. 4 hours of
uncompressed or DVCPROHD would be a breeze.

Also…just for kicks try After Effects CS3 if you want to see your 8 core beauty
brought to its knees. 95% utilization on ALL cores. You can barely move a window
around because it is sucks up so much resources. Adobe seems to “get it” in that
regard, but setting up Qmaster correctly helps a lot.

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

make sure your menu settings are set to HDV and not DV.
Try different firewire cables.
Try a different mac.
Trash FCP prefs and make sure the 1080 60i HDV preset is selected.

In other words…use the process of elimination to narrow down
what is causing this issue.

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

Play back the tape on the A1 in VTR mode. Does it say “24f” on the screen?

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

can you give us a few clues as to what kind of system, fcp version, and A1 settings you shot in?

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

Neither…

Choose HDV-1080p24

If you shot it in 24f then you need to use the progressive setting, not 1080i.

Will Griffith
Producer

[Will Griffith]

-Use a true 1920×1080 composition in AE.
-Stretch DVCPROHD to Comp size.
-Set project to highest bitrate available
-Render to RGB codec such as Photo JPG 100%
or PNG or just encode into your finishing
format of choice, I.E. 10bit Uncompressed.

You can’t get around a little shift in color
going from YUV to AE RGB and back.

Will Griffith
Producer/Editor