Re: Faster Render

Depending on the machine you have or if you have a very fast network available you can try this technique for compressor. Rendering can also be sped up in a similar fashion distributing it on a network. If you go to your System Preferences and select Apple Qmaster, under the 'Setup' tab, if you click on Compressor service, then select the 'Options for selected service...' button you can select the number of instances to push through compressor. Also make sure if you have say a quad core machine, or rather 8 cores in total, you only push the number of instances to 6. If you push it any higher, you risk making your machine unstable or compressor crapping out on you. What you are effectively telling Qmaster to do, is render utilising those 6 cores to the max and it will push it along a lot faster. If you do this kick it off the network by selecting Services and cluster controller. If you select 'Quickcluster with services', it is looking for another computer but in reality you need to be on a fibre channel network to get maximum benefit. Also click the Start Sharing, so it thinks it is on a network, but it is really only using it's internal cores to compress the footage.

G5 Dual 2.3GHZ
2.5GB DDR SDRAM 400MHZ
Mac OS 10.5.1
2 x 20" Apple Cinema Display
128MB ATI Graphics