Render Beast

Hi, we are looking for a way to increase our render speeds from Compressor and final cut. We currently have 3 8core intel MacPros running FCS2. We also have a few 1.8 dual G5s sitting around and was wondering if there is a way to utilize these as a render farm or to hijack their processing power using either firewire or ethernet.
I realise that Qmaster can be used for this purpose but our MacPros are located on a larger network and we would like to isolate this so that other network activity does not slow the process down.
Is it also possible to not use Qmaster and create a "Render Beast" by simply networking these G5's to a single Mac Pro?
Thank You.
Barry

One aspect, is you mentioned you are still based on the FC Studio 2 suite. This means you can readily install the 'AppleQmasterNode' package onto PowerPC Macs, and use those as additional service nodes in a cluster, and/or as a cluster controller.
This can also be done with the FC Studio 3 suite. However the installer for the AppleQmasterNode package refuses to install onto PowerPC machines. This is very easy to remedy, as mentioned elsewhere in my posts, should you need it.
Another aspect, is your network connections. If you truly believe that your primary LAN is busy enough that it can adversely affect something like a Qmaster farm, (which is quite feasible), then here are a couple of suggestions:
Your Mac Pros have two Ethernet ports. Use one to connect to the primary LAN, and use the other to connect to a [newly created] isolated LAN. Setup your Qmaster nodes to only publish themselves onto the isolated LAN. Those aging PowerPC Macs can be set up the same, if they have two Eth ports. Otherwise, they can be used only on the isolated LAN.
You can dedicate one or more of the aging PowerPC Macs directly to individual Intel Mac Pros, via Firewire connection. (Use the 800 ports if available!!!) The Qmaster setup in this case, would only allow the processing node services of the dedicated PPC Mac to be used by the attached Intel Mac Pro --- you don't want its service to be seen on the LAN, as then the service traffic would be get onto the LAN, which is what you are trying to avoid!
Note that if the PPC Macs have only one Eth port, and still need to be used for some other purpose, and need access to the primary LAN, and possibly the Internet, this will affect how feasible it is to use these suggestions.
Also note that in any Qmaster configuration, you need to run some A-to-B comparison tests, to figure out when/if you get any benefit [as compared to just processing on the local machine]. Size of the job, type of the job, etc., all come into play as to when benefits are to be seen. This knowledge then becomes part of your "toolset", such that you make decisions to send certain jobs to the cluster, and others local.
Cheers,
-Rick

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Thanks for you response and the information was very helpful. I was able to choose and output that gave me a good file size and I do want DV-AVI (I don't remember what I chose but it worked) but, I don't see an option for DV-AVI - is that a general DV output selection, because there seem to be numerous (AVCHD, NTSC, DV STANDARD) acronyms (I have tried to understand what each is) which do I want?
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For the use of Track Matte Keying, with say a Gaussian Blur, or maybe Moasic Effect, if you have not altered the In & Out Points, then just dragging the Asset to both Video 1 and Video 2 will work fine. If you HAVE adjusted the In & Out Points, you can just click-drag from the Source Monitor, where you set those In & Out Points, and all is good. The Copy/Paste is just another way to do it.
As you are doing an "overlay," the output File Size will not be affected in any way. You are also limiting the Blur, or Effect on Video 2 to just the area "exposed" by the Track Matte, so the pixel count will not be altered.
As Steve points out, the output CODEC in the AVI will determine the output File Size. File Size is basically determined by the Timeline's Duration and by the Bit-Rate of the output file. With DV-AVI, that Bit-Rate is pretty well set, and your Timeline determines the Duration. At ~ 13GB/hour, a DV-AVI will be pretty large, but that is the nature of the beast. Also, and as Steve points out, if you are going to do additional editing, and will be Importing that file into a New Project, DV-AVI is about as good, as it gets.
Good luck,
Hunt
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Render farm for DCP creation

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Hello everyone,
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Here is an example of the MP settings for a 4 year old Mac Mini that actually work for some projects, but most of the time it is turned off.
I should say that I can allocate 3 GB of ram per background CPU and still see 2 as the actual CPU's that will be used but this little Mac Mini works better with 2 selected. Setting the RAM allocation to 4 GB drops Actual CPU's to 0
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CS5 on mac 10.6.4 slows system to a crawl, render times really long

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I just want to get back to work...any ideas on how i can configure this beast to get back to my former speeds?
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Good to know, thanks for the update. 10.6.x does manage memory differently, but our testing for performance has shown a slight improvement in the newer OS. So I am guessing that the OS update is not the issue. I just ran another test on a Mac with your configuration and saw a 4% improvement on 10.6.4 over 10.5.8.
It's uncertain what state the system memory was in when you started your tests. That's why I asked for a restart of the computer. The times reported seemed like there was a possibility that the OS was swapping. XDCAM footage places a high demand on system resources. But it's hard to say without being there.
What I was seeing with the initial post was that the two extremes of allocation per background cpu were tried, but not the middle ground. To better see this, launch the Activity Monitor utility or look at the last line of the MP preference. With the 4GB reserved and the 3GB/ bkgnd cpu setting you weren't getting any extra processes spawned for multiprocessing. You can see this in the preferences multiprocessing section as "Actual CPUs that will be used = 0". Then, by setting the pref to .75GB/bkgnd the app launched 8 bkgnd processes, but for the task at hand, I am guessing that they were starved for memory and sometimes failed to render. This was faster than the first test, but still slow. By setting the pref to 1.5GB/bkgnd cpu you were now getting 4 new processes spawned for multiprocessing. The background processes had enough memory to succeed so that made it render faster still.
Now, try setting it to 1GB/bkgnd cpu. That will launch 6 processes which should render faster as long as that is enough memory for the task. If the Memory pref for Reserve RAM for other apps is set back to 3GB, it will allow the spawning of 7 bkgnd processes. If that is a successful balance for this project then it will be the fastest render time. But, our testing shows it will be at the risk of starving the OS for memory, thus the more conservative 4GB recommendation for a 12GB system.
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FCP MINI MAC RENDER FARM HELP/ADVICE

A little help from someone who may know - have been getting advice from a myraid of people here in L.A. - even people in the Apple store - and living here in L.A. it seems many answer without really knowing - and - I have searched a bit here on the forums - as well as the web - and am getting very conflicting reports...
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Yet - I see where Patrick has posted a time ago that this would not work as the FCP will not allow.
Before we drop 2 grand on the mini's - anyone have any info that would help guide us.
The people at the Apple store seem to feel it would be no problem at all... but we are nervous.
Thank you for any help or links that could help us - and - or - guide us in how to set this up.
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Yeah, that workflow isn't so great if you have to figure a cut out in a VFX app, then throw it back into your editing system, only to discover it doesn't really work. Backwards and forwards between apps...ugh. Editing is about the discovery process, and stepping out to other apps takes you away, not only from your dailies, but from the context. If you can pull this off in FCP, you'll be the better for it.
One question - are you also applying effects other than just Twixtor to these clips? If so, once you have them set as you like them, turn them off until you get the Twixtor effect right - then turn 'em back on again for a final render.
Another question - what are your media and render settings? What rez are we talking about here? Have you set Render rez to Precision YUV?
Yes, the mini will help, there's no denying, but it is a slower system, with a slower system drive, a slower memory bus, and you're gonna have to whack some more RAM in there - at least a Gig anyway. That's $599+$122. Plus the FCP licence (uhhhh....$1299) and a Twixtor render licence ($65 or $119 depending on Regular or Pro version). So it's over two grand already, and you don't have a monitor as well as that it's really not going to be an amazing performer. If you're gonna spend money, get some better hardware - maybe an iMac?
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I started this thread in the Adobe Forums for PhotshopCS4, but the consensus there was that my issue is a QuickTime issue, perhaps with a DLL and iTunes. I have included a few of those suggestions at the end of the post. I have tried uninstalling QT Pro, cleaning and reinstalling with no improvement. I have not removed iTunes and reinstalled.
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I am unable to render video it seems in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Despite having the latest QuickTime Pro installed and all updates to Vista 32 bit and to CS4 Design Premium, I get the following error message:
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This happens when, for example, I load 100 medium resolution JPEGs as an image sequence and choose File >Export > Render Video.
If I OK through the error a couple of times I get a screen with output options, but usually some are greyed out. When I CAN put in QuickTime settings and choose export I get the following error:
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When I have opened a support case with Adobe it has regularly been closed after being told to get QuickTime 7.2 or higher. GGGrrrr. I have QT 7.6.5 Pro installed.
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Adobe Photoshop Version: 11.0.1 (11.0.1x20090218 [20090218.r.523 2009/02/18:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Operating System: Windows Vista 32-bit
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Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2400 MHz
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
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Free memory: 1180 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1632 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 80 %
Image cache levels: 4
Serial number: removed
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\
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Was your QT properly installed with correct privileges? As Mr. Cox said, it seems there is an issue with your QT install. also, in the QT system control panle, enable the Allow Encoding using Legacy CoDecs option. this often fixes the weirdest issues (as it also catches a number of other legacy calls to QT components)...
Mylenium
Thanks guys- the QT install SEEMS fine....? I will try allowing legacy CODECs and if that doesnt ehlp I will totally uninstall QT Pro, clean the registry, reboot and install QT from the top. Will let you know how I get on with this.
Phil
I have enabled using legacy CODECs and restarted, same error message.
I have completely uninstalled QuickTime(Pro), run CCleaner to clear files and the registry...I have then rebooted, reinstalled Quicktime(Pro) 7.6.5, rebooted. I get the very same error message at that time.
Any further suggestions appreciated.
All the google searches point directly at Apple like Chris pointed out. I noticed that there were a lot of Apple product hits but the most standing out was itunes. Did you happen to install itunes software (or some other Apple product) and maybe itunes over-wrote the .DLL? Other then that thought I don't have any other input.
I agree this is an issue with an Apple DLL. The error you're getting suggests that the wrong version of the DLL is being used. It means that the thing that is rendering the video is expecting the CoreFoundation DLL to have a particular function called CFCreateRepositoryPath but it's not there.
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You might search your entire hard-drive and find where the CoreFoundation DLL exists and what version each is. If there is only one version, then perhaps your version of QuickTime is actually too new. Photoshop 11.0.1 came out a long time ago, and the version of QuickTime referred to in the support-ticket-closure response is also pretty old, so maybe the newest QuickTime is using a newer version of the DLL that Photoshop knows how to deal with.
Searching my system for CoreFoundation. there is one smaller version of the DLL in Apple Application Support dated in November and then several larger ones in directories dealing with mobile phones like the iPhone, which I don't have one of, dated a few months earlier.
I'm guessing the iPhone stuff came with iTunes, which I do have installed, though I don't really use it.
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"The procedure entry point CFCreateApplicationRepositoryPath could not be located in the data link library CoreFoundation.dll"
Thanks for all the detailed information, pw. It's very helpful.
Okay, the most recent versions of QuickTime require a fully functional Apple Application Support in order to run properly. You're getting a problem with one of the Apple Application Support dlls. So the best thing to do first would be to uninstall both Apple Application Support and QuickTime, and then reinstalling QuickTime (which should reinstall a fresh version of Apple Application Support).
There's 7/Vista 32-bit instructions for doing that in the following post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10760492&#10760492

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Regards
Phil

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Hi Karen,
If the parameters have default values in the report, then the report can be rendered automatically.
For this issue, I recommend to verify the things below:
Does this issue occur when you open the page with the web part in a new tab in the browser or go back to the previous opened tab?
Does this issue occur in the server side or client side?
Please add the site to trusted sites in Internet Explorer to see how it works.
Please change another browser to see how it works.
For narrowing down the issue scope, please test with another report and compare the results.
Thanks,
Victoria
TechNet Community Support
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