Compressor and FCP X Proxy Transcodes

Hi,
Simple question for someone that knows.
Can i distribute the transcoding of proxies and optimised media from FCP X onto other Macs using compressor?
I believe i can distribute actual encoding jobs, but wondering about the background encoding does in FCP X as well
many thanks
Paul

I would think so. I did it all manually myself. Made a folder in Applications and moved all the FCPS apps to it. Then installed FCPX.
The only issue I ran into was having 2 copies of Compressor the new one and the old one once I uninstalled the old compressor and re-installed the new one I was good to go.

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Hi Shane, thanks for replying.
The reason I imported the H.264 movie into FCP was to add a short logo clip to the end of it, which was requested after I had exported a self-contained movie from my timeline and already started converting in Compressor... it took 60 hours to deinterlace (set to Best) and convert to H.264 all in one Batch (using only a single target...I did everything in one target, rather than chaining). I know you can't edit in H.264, but I thought adding something to the end and then re-exporting to H.264 might work...
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Hi JIm,
Seriously now,
I see you are using a G5.
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I suspect you are attempting to burn an HD DVD, which will not play on a DVD player...
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Would Final cut server help me in this scenario also?
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Read this article for further information on how to set up a QCluster: http://visionstudios.ca/RenderFarm/RenderFarmleft.html
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Anthony, thank you very much - this works, though I thought I had tried your process previously without success. I've tried so many things who knows. I've had zero luck going with the Send to Compressor or Export Using Compressor Settings under the Share menu. I'm also finding Compressor 4 to be a real dog on my system even though I have a brand new quad core machine with 8G of RAM. Prior to receiving your post I did come up with a different work process. Using Export Movie from FCP X and then loading the result in Compressor 3 works flawlessly. Thanks again!

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VAR,
1. When you can spare another 5 min to solve your problem, instead of coming here and complaining about no one helped you (though Tom did offer a very direct response) you might take the time to read your DVDSP manual.
In it, you will discover that DVDSP is totally capable of converting quicktime movies to m2v and aif files. You have full control over all aspects of bitrate etc. Indeed, it is the same engine as in compressor. If you need an AC3 file, use A-Pack on the aif DVDSP will create.
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fwiw -
1. the people who hang out here and help out fellow users are not employees of Apple. If you want to complain about the software, a good place to do it is on the FCP feedback page This forum is to provide technical support.
2. The people who hang out here and help fellow users are not compensated. Their efforts are volunteer and no one is under any obligation to respond to you in any way. If you don't like the advice, I'm sure Apple techincal support would be glad to have a $199 conversation with you.
3. Tom is a mainstay of the board and one of the the most knowledgeable people you will find regarding FCP. As such he is highly respected by the serious users of the forum. You will not find a great deal of sympathy or support here if you continue on in this vein ..
You have a technical issue, post the details, For example, what have you tried to solve the problem? The intellectual resources here are quite amazing. I've not seem many posts go unresolved for lack of trying.
good luck.
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SO...this morning, I strectched, woke up and opened the project and the "Saved all" files I supposedly saved...were not there. The original .mov was.
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I guess it was "iMovie" that I made the movie in..."iDVD" that I authored the DVD in.
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Help with cs3 and fcp -from cs2 and fcp thread..

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My file is dark and a little flat...so I used levels effect adjustments. However, though it looks way better and exports OK ( hdtv 1920x1080p 24fps) I do see some "noise" now if I freeze the frame...is that common or am I over doing it on the gamma and levels correction ?
I'm just doing hd for the first time really on this machine, trying to figure out what I need in future for machine and upgrade to CS5...so I am going to dissect this file and figure this out til the cows come home so I don't have to deal with problems in future with new machine, etc.
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Got an update from the man who sent me the prores file...and a little info re: his opinion of adobe coming from FCP...I will share it with you all...
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