{"id":54,"date":"2009-05-04T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-06-10T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T22:22:14","slug":"compressor-and-multiple-cores-is-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Compressor (and multiple cores) is your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a big deal. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to what this note says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrebellion.com\/blog\/posts\/using_compressor_with_multiple_cores.html\">note says<\/a>, you can use other computers to render your files. It has taken me a little while to figure this out. This tutorial describes just using one computer but you can do the same for multiple computers. I did try this on a Dual 1GHz G4 and it slowed things down, so make sure that the additional computers have sufficient power. <\/p>\n<p>Read the tutorial to learn a bit more, here&#8217;s my overview:<\/p>\n<p>1) Install Compressor and QMaster on your non-FCP computer and use the Quick Cluster option. It will make things much easier. On the FCS 2 install disk there is a installer just for this action.<\/p>\n<p>2) When you want to compress, click Submit and select your FCP computer to serve as the cluster controller.<\/p>\n<p>3) Sit back and watch your files get rendered in 1\/4th the time.<\/p>\n<p>I use a MacBook Pro because I need the portability. I used to use a MacPro Quad 3.0&#8230; now I use both when I need to render video. What a lifesaver.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalrebellion.com\/blog\/1\/\">Digital Rebellion<\/a>? Great site for video! Thanks, Jon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a big deal. In addition to what this note says note says, you can use other computers to render your files. It has taken me a little while to figure this out. This tutorial describes just using one computer but you can do the same for multiple computers. I did try this on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compressor (and multiple cores) is your friend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,31,33],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvRD1-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":146,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=146","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"FCP 7 and ProRes","date":"August 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"FCP 7 introduces a 3 new HD codecs for production work, ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 422 (Proxy). With these additions, this brings to five versions of HD codecs \u00c2\u00a0available for production work. I did a simple comparison of Flip H.264 transcoding to all 5 versions, knowing full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=20","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":1},"title":"CrumplePop","date":"May 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"CrumplePop: Hand-drawn Master Templates for Final Cut Pro. Saw the demos, had to have'em. Can't wait to use this in a project. High quality labels to put into your FCP video. They also have a Polaroid film template that is free but I'm waiting to get the link....hurumph.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":379,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=379","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":2},"title":"Forget about WebM","date":"June 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For the past 6 or 7 months, I've attempted to provide video to all types of platforms by encoding videos in both H.264 and WebM. WebM is the encoder of choice for Firefox, Chrome etc in other words \"not-Apple\" (though Microsoft has thrown in with Apple on H.264). I haven't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":373,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=373","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":3},"title":"Using Kaleidoscope to sync iTunes","date":"January 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Like many of you, I have multiple iTunes Libraries. One for the laptop, one for the house and another for my media center. Keeping these in-synch with almost 6,000 songs and over 1100 TV shows as become more than laborious. I have tried to use Supersync in the past and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asides&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=42","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":4},"title":"iMovie 09 and Ken Stone","date":"May 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"iMovie 08 was a bit controversial on introduction last year. It was substantially different than the previous versions of iMovie, so much so it angered most heavy users. It was clearly a version 1.0 release and Apple was atleast kind enough to keep the old version iMovie HD around so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":60,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=60","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":5},"title":"Video Redesign on WRP","date":"May 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, I spent a fair amount of time re-organizing my films on WRP. I had a few goals: 1) Bring my site into the 21st Century, so quit using a js script to open a new window to display the movie. So, how are all the cool kids doing it?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}