[William Quibell]

Yes, I am on a Mac. ProRes worked really well.

Thank you,

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[William Quibell]

** I didn’t see the NAS thread already created… If an admin could move the conversation to the NAS section…..*

Thank you for the candid response! I guess it is what I should have expected. What it comes down to right now for me is the selection of software. I was hoping someone would at least say… FreeNAS is good, but when I switch to OMV, it was so much better to work on…. Or better yet, Maybe I should learn the world of VM-Ware… lol

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[William Quibell]

So just to confirm… If I have 4 other macs running compressor, and they have all been setup as a Quick Cluster.

Is that all i have to do to share the encoding tasks?

I did a few tests so far, and have not found any of the computer working…. I am not sure.

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[William Quibell]

the 4 videos are about 30mins of footage, and the VIO uses H.264 compression, so it’s usually about 600-700Mb of data. And our customers want there DVD’s fast… lol

I did my first attempt tonight, and it seem to be a little faster then Toast doing it. But then I am still trying to figue out the best setup…

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[William Quibell]

well i am a noob…. I put the clips together into final cut x and sent to compressor… :p

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[William Quibell]

Our source files are H.264, 1920×1080 10.05mbit.

It comes from a POV camera mounted on a guides head. Then we need to burn the videos from the camera to a SD DVD for our clients that do not know what to do with with a fancy USB stick.

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[William Quibell]

If you don’t mind I would like to piggy back your thread….

I need to burn basic DVDs fast. They will only be 4 clips in SD. An intro clip (always same), and then 3 other clip for maybe a total of 20~ minutes of footage.

Is there a noticeable encoding speed difference between between iDVD vs. Toast for example? Or is DVD Studio Pro or AvidDVD faster then the rest?

I will be using a Mac Pro 8core.

Or am I splitting hairs worrying about this?

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[William Quibell]

I was trying to save myself time, since I spent so much time, first converting VHS to DVD, then DVD to MP4 … now i have to do MP4 to DV.

Although I find still have to render the quicktime format with FCE, Hanse, my original question. So I am exporting the videos as AVI with streamclip and it working find.

Thank you… everyone

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[William Quibell]

no, no 🙂

The footage is our own. It’s just a 17 minute documentary on how our facility was built. Since we lost the original footage, I have been playing the VOB on a solid state media player from Technovision. But now that we are moving forward to a Doremi file server to play all the documentary we have, I need to create a DCP for everything we have.

I will continue to work on this… thank you to everyone for your assistance.

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[William Quibell]

When I try to import the VOB into Vegas two very bad things happen.

First it takes almost 15-25 minutes to import the vob file into Vegas. Then asfter waiting all that time, when I drag the vob into the time line (w/ 5.1 if that makes a difference) the program crashes everytime!!!

I figured this happen because Vegas dose not support VOB files.

Any advise?

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