Tip: Setting up multi-Mac cluster for Compressor + 2007 v. 2009 Octo MacPro bakeoff

[sanosuque]

sorry. 7.0.3



[sanosuque]

What Final Cut are you running? i have the 7.3 and in the services computer i get and error of final cut when i use it like a services...also,in the main macpro, are not using the 8 cores instead i have setting up the virtual cluster.

[UrZNL]

Oh my gawd, i'm gonna go set this up right now.. thx man! :-)

[videoeditorster]

very cool. how do get the processor usage to show up at the top bar?

[TwistedShrapnel]

going to be getting a second mac soon (27" iMac i7) and am definitely looking forward to creating a networked cluster so I can have 10 cores going at a batch. thanks for the tutorial! :)

[huggeebear]

I set up a cluster of spare Edit suite Macs at work to transcode at least 20 XDCAM discs into ProRes LT for an edit starting a few days later. Compressor absolutely smashed through it. Best thing ever seeing MenuMeters reporting each core pegged at 100%

Thanks for the video.

[jaketechwizard]

The video was great! I was wondering what program/application is showing you the processor usage in the menubar on the top of the screen?(The one with the little boxes)

[AzKrElTejon]

Great tutorial man! I have to do a render cluster, whit 3 minimac's linked to my main so thanks!

[mdh0153]

Great tutorial. This should cut down my compression time in half. Thanks for the extra 3 hours!

[sxcHideki]

just cause im curious about this.

is it good for gaming or just for huge data like dvd conversion and so on

anyway, nice vid.

[claudioagmfilho]

we are from Brazil in south America and we just love your videos from down here ....I am actually from Recife in the northeast part of Brazil

[fuxxel]

iam so lucky to get my second mac pro in a few days and i can test this soon =D thank you for this nice tutorial =D

[defsol]

So I am going to try this out with the mac lab that I manage and would like to know a few things.

1. Does Compressor or Qmaster have to be running on all the other service nodes after I set them up in system preferences?

2. All my machines connect to a shared network drive automatically on startup, so does the destination for my output file need to be on that shared network drive?

Thanks

[alanstarkie2001]

Nerdy but nice.

[JMDylan]

This is an awesome video! I always wondered how this was done. At my school they have a Lab of 28 Mac Pros that they use for 3D animation and they were talking about making a cluster.

What do you do for a living that requires you to need that much power? I am just curious because I love watching and doing this kind of stuff.

-Dylan

[jst4tim]

Nice detailed vid Mike. I have to admit it was way over my head but maybe I will understand it more if I ever get Final Cut when I get a Mac.

[PinnacleTech]

wow 2 MAC PROS!!!!!!!!!!

[strickmans]

hi can u give me this program i got no money to buy it?

[lukefishproductions]

great video very useful :)

[m4life786]

Great video man! Thanks

[dAdE1507]

I wish I had a Mac. All this seems very useful.

[Vajacases]

nice

[themegamactv]

wow awesome video!

I need to get Final Cut Studio!

FC Express takes like 30 mins on my Mac Pro for 500MB...

[iPhoneiReview]

Great tutorial!