How can I get more rendering power, short buying another Mac? at DVinfo.net

Brian Boyko · February 3rd, 2008, 12:25 AM

Working on a laptop. I was wondering if there was any way to get more rendering power in Final Cut Pro - perhaps by doing distributed computing or hooking it up to a render farm or something...

What I'd like to do is somehow hook the Mac up to a Beowulf cluster - is there any way that this can be done?

Chris Hocking · February 3rd, 2008, 06:03 AM

As far as I know, you can't do it unfortunately. Compressor and Shake support distributed rendering - but not Final Cut Pro. Sorry!

Brian Boyko · February 4th, 2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Hocking

As far as I know, you can't do it unfortunately. Compressor and Shake support distributed rendering - but not Final Cut Pro. Sorry!

What about with Compressor?

Chris Hocking · February 4th, 2008, 05:03 PM

Sure! You can do distributed rendering with Compressor and Shake using QMaster. Just look in the documentation that comes with Compressor on how to set it all up...

Brian Boyko · February 5th, 2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Hocking

Sure! You can do distributed rendering with Compressor and Shake using QMaster. Just look in the documentation that comes with Compressor on how to set it all up...

Right, but do I have to buy additional macs for that or can I build a monster PC or bank of PCs running Linux and render that way?

Chris Hocking · February 8th, 2008, 06:56 AM

Good question! I know there is some kind of QMaster-type software that runs on Linux that takes care of the rendering for the Linux version of Shake. I'm not sure if it's compatible with the latest Mac version of QMaster or the Final Cut Studio suite however...

Hopefully someone else can clear this up?

February 3rd, 2008, 12:25 AM	#1
Brian Boyko Major Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 773	How can I get more rendering power, short buying another Mac? Working on a laptop. I was wondering if there was any way to get more rendering power in Final Cut Pro - perhaps by doing distributed computing or hooking it up to a render farm or something... What I'd like to do is somehow hook the Mac up to a Beowulf cluster - is there any way that this can be done?

February 3rd, 2008, 06:03 AM	#2
Chris Hocking Major Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 595	As far as I know, you can't do it unfortunately. Compressor and Shake support distributed rendering - but not Final Cut Pro. Sorry!

February 4th, 2008, 05:03 PM	#4
Chris Hocking Major Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 595	Sure! You can do distributed rendering with Compressor and Shake using QMaster. Just look in the documentation that comes with Compressor on how to set it all up...

February 8th, 2008, 06:56 AM	#6
Chris Hocking Major Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 595	Good question! I know there is some kind of QMaster-type software that runs on Linux that takes care of the rendering for the Linux version of Shake. I'm not sure if it's compatible with the latest Mac version of QMaster or the Final Cut Studio suite however... Hopefully someone else can clear this up?