CaptainNemo Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Good evening (from rainy Europe), I just got a Panasonic DVD-R/W-Camcorder yesterday and I started working with Final Cut Pro again after 2 years of a break. I'm happy with my hackintosh doing it very well, but when it comes to compression / rendering, I've a bit in trouble with the time My machine is kinda fast, I know, but I dislike overclocking for any reasons. My though is now: Can I create a cluster for Final Cut Pro (and even Cinema 4D rendering)? I don't now how it works - so, that's the question I've some hardware laying around here: there's the "media machine" as written in my signature on position 2. there's an Opteron 160 (DualCore) with 2Gigs of RAM which my wife don't need anymore for her Vista since she's got a notebook. there's an Athlon64/3700 with 1Gig of RAM and finally there's an Athlon64/3500 with 2Gigs of RAM. All together: 7 Cores and 10Gigs of RAM (the question is: is it usable!?) Do i need fast hard discs (I've 4x 250GB SATA-II here, but I like to keep them where they currently are. I also have some older disks like 20GB. Is 100MBit-Network fast enough? I also have 1000MBit/s cards here, but unsure if I'll a driver for them (Realtek 8169S, Intel Desktop Pro 1000 GT and some D-Links (Realtel based on 8169anything). What do you think? Possible or waste of time? Ciao Nemo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 It's just simply not possible! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-457941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
^kaneda Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Qmaster .... , isn´t that the answer?... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-457950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Qmaster will only work if all those comps are running mac os x. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-459142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainNemo Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well, of course I was talking about PCs running JaS 10.4.8 -> 10.4.9 -> Koolkal 10.4.10 Maybe I could do it running QMaster (and get a bit into this theme). Thanx for the QMaster hint! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-459742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonokti Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 You can just pull up the help menu from compressor and choose distributing process setup lots to read and it's a bit confusing I couldn't getting to work until I looked at the troubleshooting section. The troubleshooting section has a very detail method on how to get it to work: To export a Final Cut Pro sequence as a QuickTime reference movie and submit it to Compressor for distributed processing: 1 Make sure all of the source media files and render files for your Final Cut Pro project are on a hard disk that can be shared (mounted) by all the computers in the cluster that will process the job. (The following instructions use an example of a shared hard disk named Media1.) If you copy all the media files to another hard disk for this purpose, you may need to reconnect the media files in Final Cut Pro before proceeding. Important: The hard disk you use to store the media files may not be a startup disk for any computer in the cluster. 2 In Final Cut Pro, choose File > Export > QuickTime Movie. 3 In the Save dialog, make sure that the Make Movie Self-Contained checkbox is not selected. 4 Save the QuickTime reference movie to the same hard disk (Media1) used to store media files in step 1. 5 Enable file sharing on the computer where the scratch disk (Media1) is located (in the Sharing pane of System Preferences, click Services and then select Personal File Sharing). 6 On each computer in the intended cluster, mount the hard disk (Media1) where the media files and QuickTime reference movie are located (in the Finder sidebar, click Network, navigate to the computer that contains the Media1 disk, click Connect, and select Media1). 7 In Compressor Preferences, specify cluster options settings: aChoose Compressor > Preferences, or press Command-comma ( , ). The Preferences window appears. bChoose “Never Copy Source to Cluster” from the Cluster Options pop-up menu. 8 Import the QuickTime reference movie into Compressor. (Drag it from the desktop to the Compressor Batch window.) 9 Double-click the file in the Batch window and play it in the Preview window to verify the integrity of the clip. 10 In the Batch window, assign settings and destinations to the selected file as necessary. 11 Choose the intended cluster from the Cluster pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Batch window. 12 Click Submit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-462456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Qmaster is only for Final Cut Studio. For Cinema 4D, use drqueue. Edit: Check this too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64642-fcp-rendering-cluster-o/#findComment-475501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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