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I have a G5 and a newish G4 laptop. I've looked up and down this discussion, but still have these basic questions:
1. Can both computers work from one source file and create one compressed file, together, without splitting the result into segments? (eg. take 1 hour long DVCPRO HD quicktime and encode it into one h.264 quicktime movie that i can send to a client)
2. Why in compressor under the clusters pull down menu do i only see "this computer" and not the quick cluster i attempted to create in system preferences (on my g5 i selected Quick Cluster with services (including unmanged servces from other computers, and on my laptop i selected sevices only). Also in Q administrator, i see both computers in the service browser but the actual service types when i twril down each computer are greyed out...
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The solution for you is to make the services you want to use "managed" on each computer. Then create a new cluster in Qadmin. You will then see the processors un-greyed and you will be able to drag them into the new cluster you created. Be sure you have set up one computer as a cluster controller with services.

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