I am using a MBP 13" mid-2010 2.4GHZ core 2 duo with 8GB RAM and OWC SSD(main drive) and 500gb WD Drive on Lion 10.7.2.
I edited a 2min 37 sec piece in Final Cut Pro X from iPhone 4s 1080p footage and attempted to export to compressor using the 1080p preset. I fell asleep after about 20-30 minutes of rendering time(it was about 50 % done) and woke up to a 400mb finished file. I have about 10 transitions and beginning title and end title.
Exporting the same piece to uncompressed 3GB file in Prores takes about 3-5 minutes. I am currently exporting 720p output from the 3gb ProRes HQ file and it is estimating 27 min.
I set up Apple Qmaster Sharing with "Share this computer..as services only" with "Compressor" checkbox checked under SERVICES as well as checking "Require these services to only be used in managed clusters". I did not check the "Rendering" services checkbox. Do I need to do this? In the Submit box I selected "THIS COMPUTER PLUS" checkbox.
I tried "SEND TO COMPRESSOR" as well as "Export Using Compressor Settings". Which do you recommend? I didn't see any big differences in speed.
I also set instances to 2 for faster processing but can't remember where I checked that box. I heard they say it's best to set # of instances to half the number of your cores so I am trying to change that back to 1 for core 2 duo machine if that is the right thing to do.
Thanks.
I edited a 2min 37 sec piece in Final Cut Pro X from iPhone 4s 1080p footage and attempted to export to compressor using the 1080p preset. I fell asleep after about 20-30 minutes of rendering time(it was about 50 % done) and woke up to a 400mb finished file. I have about 10 transitions and beginning title and end title.
Exporting the same piece to uncompressed 3GB file in Prores takes about 3-5 minutes. I am currently exporting 720p output from the 3gb ProRes HQ file and it is estimating 27 min.
I set up Apple Qmaster Sharing with "Share this computer..as services only" with "Compressor" checkbox checked under SERVICES as well as checking "Require these services to only be used in managed clusters". I did not check the "Rendering" services checkbox. Do I need to do this? In the Submit box I selected "THIS COMPUTER PLUS" checkbox.
I tried "SEND TO COMPRESSOR" as well as "Export Using Compressor Settings". Which do you recommend? I didn't see any big differences in speed.
I also set instances to 2 for faster processing but can't remember where I checked that box. I heard they say it's best to set # of instances to half the number of your cores so I am trying to change that back to 1 for core 2 duo machine if that is the right thing to do.
Thanks.
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