Any way to make compressor a LITTLE faster?

[Ethosik]

I recently got a 2016 MacBook Pro and just performed my first real test with FCPX and Compressor on it. It completely destroys my 2010 Mac Pro in this area, but I would still like a little bit more power. What I am doing, is taking a 2-hour h.264 video, cutting it up a bit, and rendering it out. My laptop, for every minute of source footage, takes a minute to render. So mine took two hours to render that video.

My 2010 Mac Pro takes around 4 hours, so there definitely is an improvement!

 

[killawat]

Nothing you can do software wise but if you need more oomph you can use something like Matrox MXO2 Mini with MAX (Thunderbolt) for compressor hardware acceleration.

 

[Ethosik]

Nothing you can do software wise but if you need more oomph you can use something like Matrox MXO2 Mini with MAX (Thunderbolt) for compressor hardware acceleration.

Should I use something other than h.264? I produced a master file h.264, and it was VERY fast. But it was 33 GB

 

[jerryk]

Get a Mac Pro or PC. We render 10 minutes in 3 minutes on basic i7 PCs with Samsung 950 Pro drives, GTX 1070s, 32 GB of memory even with slow Adobe Premier. I think we have about $1500 into a system.

 

[Ethosik]

Get a Mac Pro or PC. We render 10 minutes in 3 minutes on basic i7 PCs with Samsung 950 Pro drives, GTX 1070s, 32 GB of memory even with slow Adobe Premier. I think we have about $1500 into a system.

PC is out of the question, I use FCPX.
Mac Pro was a LOT more expensive than my 2016 MacBook Pro.

I doubt it would save enough time to warrant a $4,000 difference in price either.. Should I use ProRes instead for smaller files?