Using clusters with compressor

Anyone know where there is a guide or video demo showing how this is done as I dont fully understand it.
I have tried but it failed.
I have a 8gb ram 8 core Mac with fcp7 and while doing a export I asked it to use clusters, gave it a name anf hit go, nbot a lot happend, can someone shed soem idiots guide to make this happen for me please,
regs
daz

yes indeed. thanks for this or though I have just been watching a rather good video of this on youtube.
They showed me step by step how to do it and monitro it which is goo, but 2 things here with my system...
When I monitor q master in show the eight cores set but only the top cluster core goes green light, the remianing core list below stays grey abd does not say capture status or go green, which makes me think its only using 1 core somehow.
In the batch monitor it show lots of work going on but not really faster. The processor says it going at 90% but that could one processor going all out.
Somewhere in my mac is a core monitor which I have yt to find, If in the apple q list the status wnet green and said capture rather than not I would think it would be workng correct but they donot.
Please help,
Daz

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Clusters with Compressor 2

Hi,
I'm trying to get a cluster set up to render some long files with Compressor & am not having too much success. I've read some of the discussions & would just like to know if it's really possible to get set up so it actually works properly.
Thanks for any assistance and/or tips!

Well I seem to have everything set properly. Both machines have Qmaster installed & Sharing is turned on. Right now I have the "Share this computer as" QuickCluster with services checked. I've also tried with the "Services and Cluster controller" button checked but nothing seems to happen. When I drag a file into the Compressor window, select my settings and click on "Submit" nothing happens. I opened the Activity Monitor on both machines to see if there was any action, but nothing.
You mention "Once all of the nodes are sharing they should show up in the Qmaster Admin window" but where is that window? Is it the "Services" window where the Share buttons for Compressor and Rendering are checked?
Thanks for the reply - I'll keep on trying!

Anyone have experience with using Flip4Mac with Compressor?

I am suddenly getting a strange QT error. I just upgraded my QT version to the latest one, 7.4.5 and now I can't encode anything using Flip4Mac's WMV encoder through Compressor. Everything was working just fine before I did the upgrade, but now whenever I try to use Compressor to export to a WMV file, I get an error that reads "QuickTime Error: -2002"
It's like the codec isn't even installed or something, because the error is instant. It's not like it gets going and then quits out in the middle.
I've tried a full clean re-install of Compressor, QuickTime and Flip4Mac and I still get this error. Does anyone out there have any ideas?

I would recommend downgrading to QuickTime 7.3.1, which is currently the most stable version of QuickTime for Final Cut Studio 2.0.2.
- QuickTime 7.3.1 for Leopard
- QuickTime 7.3.1 for Tiger
- QuickTime 7.3.1 for Panther
Have a look here for instructions: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/usingpacifist_to_downgradequicktime.html

Using DivX with Compressor...

Howdy...
Just getting started with FCS2. I have installed the DivX software from their website, and it seems to work well exporting from FCP, however I would like to add DivX export to Compressor so I can do a batch render to several formats at once there...
When I select Quicktime Export in Compressor, however, DivX doesn't show up (even thought it does in FCP6)...
Anyone know how to get this working?
Thanks...
Best,
Benjamin
http://www.neo-fight.tv [The TV Show for The 'Not-So-Geeky']

Ya, and I can export fine from FCP. Any idea why it won't work from Compressor? Seems strange that I can do it from FCP but not from compressor...
Best,
Benjamin
http://www.neo-fight.tv [The TV Show for The 'Not-So-Geeky']

Xgrid with Compressor?

Anyone know if one can use Xgrid with Compressor? Seems a logical benefit, but I don't see any info on it.
Joe

As far as I know, Apple has two distributed processing mechanisms. The Qmaster one that ships with FCP/Compressor must be configured with the slave machines on the same subnet as the controller. (I've not set this up, but found that restriction in the docs).
It would seem that Xgrid is the perfect product to use for large, distributed TV rendering with Compressor. But neither product seems to know about the other.
I've got 20 Xgrid agents (on various remote subnets) ready to go rendering broadcast TV recordings. So now I'm faced with the choice of using Compressor or Xgrid, not both. But there's so much transcoding to do, I'll probably have to go with Xgrid and something like mencoder or VLC.
If anyone knows if Compressor/Xgrid integration is on the horizon soon please say - It'll save me alot of development.
George Bray
University of Canberra
geo at mac dot com

I am exporting a 2 min video, using a custom compressor setting. i have not had issues with this setting in the past, but recently its taking upwards of 4 hours to process. Any idea what is going on?

I am exporting a 2 min video, using a custom compressor setting. I have not had issues with this setting in the past, but recently its taking upwards of 4 hours to process. Any idea what is going on?

Name: Vimeo HD Encode
Description: No description
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 2.3 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
          AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
Video Encoder
          Width: 1920
          Height: 1080
          Pixel aspect ratio: Square
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
          Frame Controls On:
                    Retiming: (Best) High quality Motion Compensated
                    Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
                    Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
                    Adaptive Details: On
                    Antialias: 0
                    Detail Level: 0
                    Field Output: Progressive
          Codec Type: H.264
          Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
          Pixel depth: 24
          Spatial quality: 75
          Min. Spatial quality: 25
          Key frame interval: 30
          Temporal quality: 50
          Min. temporal quality: 25
          Average data rate: 5.12 (Mbps)
Compatible with Mac
My video in the timeline is 1920 x 1080 / 23.98 fps
I've installed Toast and photoshop elements recently, i also updated my apps the other day.
I have had this problem before the updates of the apps though

Best Practices for patching Sun Clusters with HA-Zones using LiveUpgrade?

We've been running Sun Cluster for about 7 years now, and I for
one love it. About a year ago, we starting consolidating our
standalone web servers into a 3 node cluster using multiple
HA-Zones. For the most part, everything about this configuration
works great! One problem we've having is with patching. So far,
the only documentation I've been able to find that talks about
patch Clusters with HA-Zones is the following:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2971/6n57mi2g0
Sun Cluster System Administration Guide for Solaris OS
How to Apply Patches in Single-User Mode with Failover Zones
This documentation works, but has two major drawbacks:
1) The nodes/zones have to be patched in Single-User Mode, which
translates to major downtime to do patching.
2) If there are any problems during the patching process, or
after the cluster is up, there is no simple back out process.
We've been using a small test cluster to test out using
LiveUpgrade with HA-Zones. We've worked out most of bugs, but we
are still in a position of patching our HA-Zoned clusters based
on home grow steps, and not anything blessed by Oracle/Sun.
How are others patching Sun Cluster nodes with HA-Zones? Has any
one found/been given Oracle/Sun documentation that lists the
steps to patch Sun Clusters with HA-Zones using LiveUpgrade??
Thanks!

Hi Thomas,
there is a blueprint that deals with this problem in much more detail. Actually it is based on configurations that are solely based on ZFS, i.e. for root and the zone roots. But it should be applicable also to other environments. "!Maintaining Solaris with Live Upgrade and Update On Attach" (http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Maintaining+Solaris+with+Live+Upgrade+and+Update+On+Attach)
Unfortunately, due to some redirection work in the joint Sun and Oracle network, access to the blueprint is currently not available. If you send me an email with your contact data I can send you a copy via email. (You'll find my address on the web)
Regards
Hartmut

Using Tuxedo with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Hi all ,
Our present Producation environment is Tuxedo8.0 with Oracle 9i as database .
We are planning to implement oracle RAC .
Can any one tell us , with the current tuxedo version which is 8.0 ,can we for RAC Or we need to upgrade Tuxedo to 9.1 for RAC Implementation?
If anyone has Implemented Tuxedo and Oracle with RAC successfully
Pls share your experience.
Thanks In Adavance
Nadeer .

Subbu,
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, support for Oracle RAC has been
implemented in Tuxedo 9.1 and in the Tuxedo 8.1 and Tuxedo 9.0 rolling patch
streams. There are no plans to backport this feature to Tuxedo 8.0. If you
plan to use RAC transactionally and if it is possible for multiple services
that could be located on different RAC instances to be accessed in a single
transaction (which will be true for most applications), then you should
upgrade to a version of Tuxedo with support for Oracle RAC. The
documentation at http://e-docs.bea.com/tuxedo/tux91/ads/adorac.htm#248431
gives an overview of RAC support in Tuxedo.
Ed
<Subramonian Arumugom> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Hello Nadeer, Hello Ed,
Has the implementation of Tuxedo8.0 with Oracle RAC was completed
successfully ?.
If it is done , I have few doubts. Could you please help me ?.
1) I hope your Tuxedo middleware connects to the oracle Database using
Oracle XA resource manager and the TMS server built using buildtms with
oracle as RM .As per the mail from Ed, migration of Tuxedo9.1 should be done
before moving to Oracle RAC.
Also from BEA documentation, Oracle RAC support was given as new feature in
Tuxedo9.1.
Our Application uses Oracle RM to connect to Oracle DB[ Oracle 10g] from
Tuxedo8.0. So do we need to upgrade to Tuxedo9.1. for using Oracle RAC ?.
Thanks for your help
Best Regards
Subbu
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Render Benchmarks: GPU vs Quicktime X vs Compressor Quick Clusters vs Compressor distributed

I've been using Final Cut since the early days when Apple acquired the original technology and began bundling apps to create Final Cut Studio, Along the way, I have used Compressor and now have the latest version installed. I don't use Compressor much because I've always felt the performance and interface lagged behind third-party apps and now FCPX's GPU rendering.
I've been producing wedding videos for a while. Due to the long form nature of the ceremonies and the various formats I provide (web/h264, DVD, Blu-ray), I'm even more eager to optimize my rendering times.
I have tried setting up QMaster clusters multiple times over the years but found they were characteristically unreliable and didn't want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting and nursing them. With the addition of quick clusters in Compressor, I decided to give it a go again this past week.
I have 3 Macs on a gigabit LAN: 2008 Mac Pro 2.8 (8 threads), 2011 iMac i7 3.4 (8 threads), 2011 Mac Mini i5 (4 threads). All have the same/latest version of ML, FCPX and Compressor. The Mac Pro is my primary workstation: 24GB RAM, SSD boot drive, RAID0 Media drive for Projects and Events, ATI 5770 GPU.
I have a 50 min 1080 30p timeline with some mullticam clips, titles multiple audio tracks, CC, NR, etc. After allowing FCPX to background render the entire Timeline (original media/high quality playback), I choose the Share button and send a 3 min segment to a PR422 1080 30p Master destination.
From FCPX shared to PR422 Master: 1:09
Then the same segment:
From FCPX timeline shared to the default Compressor 1080p Apple Devices (10Mb) destination (not opening Compressor): 14:52
From FCPX timeline shared to Apple Devices 1080p Best Quality destination: 9:21
From Finder using the 3Min PR422 Master Segment file and the "Encode Selected Files" Service at 1080p: 3:50
From Quicktime X using the 3min PR422 Master segment file and 1080p Output format: 3:46
From Quicktime 7 Pro using the 3min PR422 Master segment file and 1080p Output format: 10:44
From Compressor using Apple Devices 1080p (10Mbps): 7:19
Adobe Media Encoder CS6 using the 3Min PR422 Master segment file w/H264 2Pass VBR 10Target/12Max m192Kb Audio 1080 30p: 6:54
This segment was too short to get a reliable test using Compressor with my "This Computer+" distributed rendering but my tests showed that even with all available threads, the distributed rendering is much slower than GPU rendering or QTX encoding. I have included screen composites here of the various output files, settings, CPU loads and utilized threads: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6tgamkjs5z2r6zv/Zg6zcyn3Ya
I realize this IS NOT scientific in that most of the tests have small variations in compression bit rates and 32 vs 64bit processes. Regardless, I'm confident that for most circumstances, Compressor is slower than most other workflows. I couldn't find a situation where I would want to use it.
Fastest hands-on workflow: Output a Master PR file then right click the file in Finder and encode to 1080p, about 5min total.
As a side note: Despite setting the quick clusters up by the book, I could never get the nodes to start rendering. Interesting because I had no problems with "This Computer+" using the available nodes on my LAN.
Observations? Recommendations?

Multiple Clusters with same computers

Is there a way to set up multiple clusters with the same computers.
For example
Cluster A has computers 1, 2
Cluster B has computers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The reason behind this is that computers 1 and 2 are always available, but 3, 4, 5 are used during the day. I'd like to have a day cluster and a night cluster that I can just select as needed.

Hi Jake, I was playing with this type of thing when FCS1 first came out using some old powerbooks.
Yes you can kind of do this using UNMANAGED SERVICES but I will stand corrected for COMPRESSOR3.app.
In FCS2, compressor 3, simply if you use *MANAGED SERVICES* of the service nodes available through a defined a specific cluster (you would have used appleqmaster utility.app) than I believe those service nodes are dedicated to that cluster.
Sure you can make 'INSTANCES" of compressor for example and the 'renderer" instances dedicated to particular cluster using this as an example... let say...
HOST1 = MACPRO8CORE with 4 instances of compressor (as C1,C2,C3,C4 via vi 4 virtual clusters) and 8 instances of renderer (R1,R2,..R7 & R8).
HOST2 = MACBOOKPRO with 1 instance of compressor (as C1 & C2 with 2 virtual clusters) and 2 instances of renderer (R1,R2).
HOST3 = PowerbookG4 with 1 instance of compressor (as C1) and 1 instances of renderer (R1).
only as an example
ClusterA: Host1[C1,C2C3, R1,R2,R4,R5), Host2[C2]
ClusterB: Host1[C4, R6,R3,R6,R7), Host2[C2,R1R2], HOST3{C1,R1]
In fact I just tried it...
However as I thought for managed services be assured that you cannot SHARE a service node with two or more clusters. I will stand corrected.
Messy but seems to work but useless with the powerbook you'd agree
However depending on your workflow and commecrial needs (say for busness prioriries for a specific client) for best results use *UNMANAGED SERVICES* ....
Simply hook everything up over GBE, with all the usual tweaks such as "NEVER COPY SOURCE" and MOUNTING all source targets and compressor work files over HFS on the GBE subnet (and many other tweaks) and treat the set up as a huge bucket.
Use priority on the batch submission. It's not too smart but at least you have some manipulation over the queues.
The resource manager in QMASTER is not so smart. So despite a service node going idle it does not seem to redirect work from wone node to another for load balancing..
I have only tried this with SEGMENTED TRANSCODING.
Rendering (Shake) works great and seem simpler. My time is with multipass segented transcoding where I want H.264 from DVCPROHD and dont want to wait all day for it, especially where I have tweaked the timing in compressor a bit.
Try it out.
BTW as many contest on this forum, QMASTER/COMPRESSOR can be a bugger to fix if it plays up. and it has for me as well.
post your results.
HTH.
w

How to share a job with Compressor 4.1?

Can anyone explain how to set up Compressor on two or more computers to share a coding job? I was never successful, neither with the old versions nor the new one. I have connected two computers running Mavericks via Ethernet. They appear in the preferences list of Compressor as inactive and can be selected (with a tick). Starting a job produces no error. Only the little network monitor window shows some activity: "inactive" (in white or yellow), sometimes: "not found" (in red). The computer which sends the job waits endlessly.
I deactivated the firewall, connected the computer with DHCP or fixed IP but no success. What else do I have to do?

Hi Steffen, hats off to you for gathering this valuable information! I'm going to title this post:
Setup Distributed Node Processing for Distributed Segmented MULTIPASS Transcoding in Compressor.app V4.1 (2013 version)
Summary:
A quick look at those logs of yours.., Qmaster is having trouble accessing its cluster storage and probably your transcode source and target elements.
This is a bit of a giveaway - looks like the part time helpers at Apple didn’t look at it hard enough
msg="CSwampService::startupServer: servicecontroller:com.apple.stomp.transcoderx couldn't advertise server, error = error: DNSServiceRegister failed: CRendezvousPublisher::_publish"/>
<mrk tms="412112937.953" tmt="01/22/2014 20:48:57.953" pid="1975" kind="begin" what="log-session"/>
<mrk tms="412113195.964" tmt="01/22/2014 20:53:15.964" pid="1975" kind="begin" what="service-request" req-id="D6BAF26C-DD43-4F29-BD72-81BC9CF25753:1" msg="Processing."></mrk>
<log tms="412113209.037" tmt="01/22/2014 20:53:29.037" pid="1975" msg="Shared storage mount failed: exception = CNFSSharedStorage::_subscribe: command [/sbin/mount 127.0.0.53:/Users/steffen/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Storage/21D262F0-BF7EC314/shared] failed, error = 61"/>
Let’s look at this and then propose a clean method of establishing and consolidating your cluster.
Simply the Bonjour service is having a hard time trying to find you and also qmaster been running ragged trying to mount your Cluster 21D262F0-BF7EC314 storage.
Let's fix it.
Basics for the above with Compressor v4.1 and Qmaster.
much has been abstracted from the user to help easy implentation and use. This is good me thinks!
avoid ticking every option that is available on each host , such facilities aggravate and add to the complexity of your workflow environment
isolate the network subnets to use for all host access, file system paths, communication, diagnosis, monitoring and finally data transfer (see later)
use source objects that will develop segments that will be distributed for processing. A 3 minute clip generally won't segment to cause distribution.
review any workflow gains by distributed transcoding: slow node hols up process and additional time to assemble qt segments. A cluster dedicated to an iMac or macpro can often be faster. (Have several clusters defined and submit accordingly (long , most and short )!!)
All elements/objects used in the source and any target folders SHOULD (not must) be mounted and accessible by each Qmaster node. You can use sym links I recall. For reasons of efficiently and easy of diagnosis.
So.. I'd propose you try and test your setup as follows .
Try this and start from beginning. Do your best to perform these work instructions. Try also not to deviate if u can
Simple Architecture Approach:
Your main Macbookpro or main work mac (refered to by you as "master") shall be designated the qmasterd controller that services batch submissions AND that also provides transcode services.
The other macs ("service or slave nodes) will ONLY perform transcoding services and will NOT accept batch submissions. The slaves / service nodes will not be able to send their jobs to your master controller for transcoding for example.
Keep it simple! and please follow these steps.
Step 1: Quiesce your clusters and Qmaster
in Compressor.app v4.1 / Preferences / Shared Computers, stop / disable all hosts (both your macs) from automatic file sharing - tick it OFF (it causes issue u have).. More later
In Compressor.app v4.1 / Preferences / My Computer, stop / disable all hosts (both your macs) stop allowing others to add batches to your host. Slide to OFF
On all hosts, quit or force out compressor.app v4.1
On all hosts (macs) use activity monitor.app or unix ps command to Force Quit ( or kill) any currently running qmasterd task and any compressord tasks if you can.
On all hosts, purge | clean out | delete the Qmaster and compressor structures. This is documented by several of us on this forum but fundamentally you want to preserve your settings and destination templates and delete the rest. Do these sub-steps on all hosts where u intend to deploy compressor/Qmaster for your distributed transcode processing
a. Navigate to /Users/shared/library/Application Support/ and delete the Compressor folder if it exists. By all means use the osx Finder to put it in the trash or just use the faithfully unix rm command to delete it immediately without serialisation : rm -rf /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Compressor
b. Navigate to your home directory ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor and move or copy any personalised values to your desktop so we can reinstate them later. Copy these two folders if they exist.
Settings
Layouts
And also copy /move any customised destination templates that u used. These are files ending in ".template"
Now using the Finder or unix command delete your ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor folder and all it's objects such: rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor
c. Dismount (+E or drag into trash) any shared file systems you have manually or automatically shared between your hosts. (Your two macs) . Turn off any auto mounts you may have setup in login items for Qmaster and your source and target libraries.
d. After you have done Steps 1a - 1c on all your hosts ,
then RESTART
and log back into your hosts
attempt to delete the trash on each.
6. Check the activity monitor and confirm there are no compressord sub tasks running. Qmasterd might be running. That's ok
Step 2: set up your dedicated network for your transcoding cluster .. Important!
In this step you will isolate your cluster network to a dedicated subnet. BTW ,o DNS is needed unless you get exotic with many nodes!
You will:
use the macs Wifi network as your primary network for NON TRANSCODING work such as email, internet , iChat, iCloud and bonjour (.local) I'm assuming u have this in place
use the Ethernet on your macs as your dedicated Qmaster cluster subnet.
For this procedure will make an IP address range 1.1.1.x subnet and manually assign the IP addresses to each host. Ofcourse you can use a smart DHCP router if u have one or a simple switch and use OSX SERVER.app erver 10.9 ($HK190 , €19) on your MAcbookpro... The later for another time
a). using system preferences/network on your controller mac("master"), configure the built in Ethernet to manual IP address of 1.1.1.1 Yes yes, dhcp would be nice if we also had a dns for this subnet to identify each host (machine name) however we don't. Leave the subnet default to 255.255.255.0, and router to 1.1.1.1 .. It's not escaping anywhere! ( very private LAN for your cluster! )
b) repeat step 2a to set the other "slaves" service node only macs whose built in Ethernet to 1.1.1.2 , 1.1.1.3 and so on
c) connect these hosts (macs) ethernets together in a dedicated hub / zoned switch or if only two macs, just use a cat5/cat6 Ethernet cable
d) on each host (mac) using system preferences/network check for a Green light against the built in Ethernet
e) on each host (mac)system preferences/network to make a new network configuration (so that you can fall back incase of error) : using system preferences/network make a new network location on each mac
- edit the Location listbox, edit and DUPLICATE the current location
- select and over type the name and change it to "qmaster work" or some name u like save and close the dialogue
- back in sys prefs / network select your new location "qmaster work" (from the location list box and "apply"
- now click the gear wheel icon on lower left and Reorder the network interfaces so that the WIfi is top (first) followed by Builtin Ethernet .
- click "apply"
- confirm Ethernet is still green status
Do this on each host (mac) .. The slave/service nodes
f) on each host (mac) verify that you can address each mac over you new subnet. There's many ways to do it however do it simply via the /applications/utilities/Terminal.app.
From mac #1 whose IP address is 1.1.1.1,
Enter:
traceroute 1.1.1.2 press return and one line should come back.
ping 1.1.1.2 and a continuous lines appear with packets and time is ms. Watch 3-4 then use control+C to stop
Do the same to the other nodes you may have such as 1.1.1.3 etc
Repeat the above from the other hosts. For example from one of the service (slave) macs say 1.1.1.2, t
Test the network path back to your main mac 1.1.1.1: using terminal.app from that slave,
Enter:
traceroute 1.1.1.1 press return and one line should come back.
ping 1.1.1.1 and a continuous lines appear with packets and time is ms. Watch 3-4 lines then use control+c to stop
At this point you should have a solid network path between your hosts over Ethernet on the subnet 1.1.1.x
Step 3: mount all filesystems over the Ethernet 1.1.1.x subnet that are to be used for transcoding source (input | read ) and target (output | to be written )
Simplicity is important at this stage to make sure you know what being accessed. This is one reason for disabling all the automatic compressor settings
You will use the Finder's "Connect to Server" (+k) from each slave (server) node to access the source and target filesystems on your master mac for the transcoding.
These can be saved as favourites in the "Connect to Server" dialogues
Do this:
A) locate the volumes / filesystems and folders on your mac master where your source objects is contained. Do the same for where the final distribution transcode is to be written with you user access.. "Steffen"
B) On each slave mac, use the Finder's "connect to server" dialogue to MOUNT those folders as network volumes on your slave macs
mount the Source folder. Finder / Go / Connect to Server or +K
enter "[email protected]//Users/steffen/movies/my-fcpx-masters. ( choose you source directory path) .
Click connect & password and use the "+" sign to save as favourite
- mount the target folder. Finder / Go / Connect to Server +k
- enter "[email protected]/users/movies/my-fcpx-transcodes. ( choose your target directory path) . Click connect n password and use the "+" sign to save as favourite
Do these for all your slave macs. Remember you are specifying file paths over the 1.1.1.x subnet
Obviously make sure your slaves have read and write access. Yes and you could also mark these folders and Shared in Finder info then everyone can see them ... your choice
C) verify your access: on each slave use the finder to create a ftest older in those recently mounted volumes. Delete the test folder.
So now all your networks and workflow folders are all mounted and accessible by your slave hosts and it's user
step 4: Set up Compressor v4.1 and Qmaster
Care is initially required here NOT to click needlessly on options.
Recall that you purged most of the compressor.app v4.1 state information on step 1. ?
Compressor.app v4.1 will appear new when u start it.
on the master mac 1.1.1.1 , launch compressor.app v4.1
open compressor v4.1 preferences (command+,)
using compressor.app V4.1 preferences:
My Computers tab: turn OFF . Don't allow others to process on this computer
Share Computers tab: UNTICK (disable) automatically share files.
Advanced tab: WHen Sharing My Computer listbox: select Ethernet as the preferred network interface 1.1.1.x). Don't use all interfaces : - trouble
Do not specify additional instances yet! Less to troubleshoot
On each slave mac 1.1.1.2 -1.1.1.x
launch compressor.app v4.1
open compressor v4.1 preferences (command+,)
using compressor.app preferences:
My Computers tab: turn ON (yes ON) to allow others to process their stuff on this slave computer
Share Computers tab: UNTICK (disable) automatically share file
Advanced tab: WHen Sharing My Computer listbox select Ethernet as the preferred network interface 1.1.1.x). Don't use all interfaces : - trouble
Do not specify additional instances yet! Less to troubleshoot !
On the master mac, 1.1.1.1
using Compressor.app v4.1, select destinations and add a new CUSTOM destination and navigate the dialogue to your target folder you specified in step 3b ~/movies/my-fcpx-transcodes as an example.
Use this custom destination on the batch later
in Compressor.app V4.1 preferences/Shared Computers, click the plus "+" sign in bottom left cornet to create a new cluster called "unnamed ".
- click in the name and change the name to "Steffenscluster" (I'm not connected to my network as I do this..)
- tick on the slaves 1.1.1.2 to 1.1.1.x to add the to your new cluster .. assumethee are on the right in a list.
Your cluster "Steffenscluster" is now active!
Care care! One more thing to do. You SHOULD make the cluster storage for master 1.1.1.1 available to all your slaves. This is important for this test !!
On the master 1.1.1.1, Use the finder to verify that you have these directories built from compressor.app v4.1
/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Compressor
and your own home directory: ~/Library/Application Support/Compressor
Dig deeper for the /storage folder in each to see the hexadecimal named folder that represents this cluster "Steffencluster"!
These should be manully mounted on each slave. Recall we DISABLED automatic file sharing.
on each slave mac 1.1.1.2 - 1.1.1.x, mount the masters cluster storage file systems. Do this for verifying access of each cluster Slave
on each slave mac, use the Finder's "connect to server" dialogue to MOUNT those folders as network volumes on your slave macs
mount Qmaster cluster storage folder
Use Finder / Go / Connect to Server or +k
enter "[email protected]/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Storage
Click connect & password and use the "+" sign to save as favourite
- mount users Qmaster cluster storage folder
Use Finder / Go / Connect to Server or command+k
enter "[email protected]/Users/steffen/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Storage
Click connect & password and use the "+" sign to save as favourite
This you may have 4 new network volumes (file systems) mounted on each mac slave over your dedicated 1.1.1.x subnet!
Step5: submit a job
On master mac 1.1.1.1 launch the new compressor.app v4.1 "Network Encoder Monitor " .. Use +E . new in COmpressor.app V4.1
You should see all your nodes all cluster service points for your master and slaves. Heres you see just one (this macbookair!)
On each host (mac) Launch the activity monitor.app and filter compressord .. There they are on each host!
Nearly there.
On the mac that's the master 1.1.1.1 (controller )
Submit a job:
Use finder to move some footage etc that more than 15 mins for example into your source directory folder from step 3b (eg ~/movies/my-fcpx-masters.)
In compressor.app v4.1 Add this +I to the batch
Drag your custom destination on to the batch
Set your encoding setting (apple devices best)
Open the inspector in compressor.app and select "video" and make sure MULTIPASS is checked. Then change to frame controls at your leisure. Better means slower
Select the General tab and make sure JOB SEGMENTING is ticked!
Now cross fingers and submit it (or +B)
Step 6: Monitoring the Workflow Progress
In compressor.app v4.1 Use the active tab to watch the progress
Open the disclosure triangle and see the segments
Unfortunately u can really see which node is processing. (No more share monitor .. btw for those who care.. thats buried now in /Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/PlugIns/Compressor/CompressorKit.bundle/Contents/Embedde dApps/Share Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Share Monitor
Look at the network encoder monitor (cmd + E) to see the instances processing your work
Lots of small and overdetailed steps here Steffen and its worth working through.
Simply all these things need to be availble to get your cluster to work EVERYTIME.
I might update this and post a more detailed disalogue/transcript on my blog and post it here.
Epilogue:
I for one rather like the new compressor.app V4.1. Qmaster is buried and works well when not teased or unintentionally fooled.
I would like the ability to :
specify the location of the qmaster cluster storage rather than have it in the root systems file system - I used to have it on my disk array
compressor to be applescriptable
Post your results for others to see.
Warwick
Hong Kong

SAP ECC 6.0 installation in windows 2008 clustering with db2 ERROR DB21524E

Dear Sir.,
Am installing sap ECC 6.0 on windows 2008 clustering with db2.
I got one error in the phase of Configure the database for mscs. The error is DB21524E 'FAILED TO CREATE THE RESOURCE DB2 IP PRD' THE CLUSTER NETWORK WAS NOT FOUND .
DB2_INSTANCE=DB2PRD
DB2_LOGON_USERNAME=iil\db2prd
DB2_LOGON_PASSWORD=XXXX
CLUSTER_NAME=mscs
GROUP_NAME=DB2 PRD Group
DB2_NODE=0
IP_NAME = DB2 IP PRD
IP_ADDRESS=192.168.16.27
IP_SUBNET=255.255.0.0
IP_NETWORK=public
NETNAME_NAME=DB2 NetName PRD
NETNAME_VALUE=dbgrp
NETNAME_DEPENDENCY=DB2 IP PRD
DISK_NAME=Disk M::
TARGET_DRVMAP_DISK=Disk M
Best regards.,
please help me since am already running late with this installation to run the db2mscs utility to Create resource.
Best regards.,
Manjunath G
Edited by: Manjug77 on Oct 29, 2009 2:45 PM

Hello Manjunath.
This looks like a configuration problem.
Please check if IP_NETWORK is set to the name of your network adapter and
if your IP_ADDRESS and IP_SUBNET are set to the correct values.
Note:
- IP_ADDRESS is a new IP address that is not used by any machine in the network.
- IP_NETWORK is optional
If you still get the same error debug your db2mscs.exe-call:
See the answer from Adam Wilson:
Can you run the following and check the output:
db2mscs -f <path>\db2mscs.cfg -d <path>\debug.txt
I suspect you may see the following error in the debug.txt:
Create_IP_Resource fnc_errcode 5045
If you see the fnc_errcode 5045
In that case, error 5045 which is a windows error, means
ERROR_CLUSTER_NETWORK_NOT_FOUND. This error is occuring because windows
couldn't find the "public network" as indicated by IP_NETWORK.
Windows couldn't find the MSCS network called "public network". The
IP_NETWORK parameter must be set to an MSCS Network., so running the
Cluster Admin GUI and expanding the Cluster Configuration->Network to
view all MSCS networks that were available and if "public network" was
one of them.
However, the parameter IP_NETWORK is optional and you could be commented
out. In that case the first MSCS network detected by the system was used.
Best regards,
Hinnerk Gildhoff

How to use x264 with FCPX

I used the automatic installer for x264.
There were no instructions on how to use it with FCPX or compressor.
Can someone offer a tip?
Thanks
10.6.8
iMac 2009,1

Youn can't use it in FCP, only with Compressor. In Compressor make a new QuickTime preset or duplicate an Apple preset and change the codec to x264.

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Why does it seem like every time I try to do something just mildly complex I'm stymied by some bug or problem with the software?
Here's the deal:
0) I have footage was shot with a stereo camcorder, a JVC GR-DV3000 (circa 2003), with built-in stereo mics.
1) I ingest the footage from the Mini DV tape and save it to a camera archive using Final Cut Pro X (latest version).
2) I use Final Cut Pro to pull the events out of archive.
3) When the events are played from within Final Cut Pro X, I hear strereo and audio meters indicate the audio is in stereo (left and right channels have different volume levels).
4) When the events are played with the open source software, VLC, I hear stereo, too.
5) When I export the files for playing on an Apple device using Final Cut Pro, the audio is in stereo as you would expect.
BUT:
5) When I play the event clips with QuickTime from my hard drive after step 2 above, I get no audio from the right channel. Weird, right?
But most annoying of all:
6) When I use Compressor 4 (instead of Final Cut) to output the event clips to "SD for Apple Devices" using the default audio settings, I get no audio from the right channel, either.
7) I've got hundreds, if not thousands, of clips. I'm not about to save each clip manually with FCPX. I need to batch convert these files with Compressor.
8) I've tried various combinations of the audio import settings ("Analyze and fix audio problems," "Separate mono and group stereo audio," and "Remove silent channels." These options have not solved the issue for me. The clips still play in mono in QuickTime.
When I look at the properties of the file in QuickTime, here's what it shows:
DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, 720 x 480 (640 x 480)
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Left
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Why it's telling me the other 3 channels are unused, I have no idea. As I mentioned, the footage was shot in stereo and even Final Cut plays it in stereo.
Here's what VLC says about the very same file:
Stream 0:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: Mono
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Stream 1:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 2:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 3:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 4:
Type: Video
Codec: (DV Video (dvc)
Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 29.970030
Decoded Format: Planar 4:1:1 YUV
If anyone can point in the right direction, I'd much appreciate it.

I ended up just using iMovie to capture video from the camera. The clips now play in stereo in QuickTime perfectly.
It's interesting to note that iMovie saves the clips as .dv file types, not .mov file types like FCPX does.
And it turns out the iMovie capture is *much* smoother. It actually "just works." Ingesting tapes with FCPX, I had to cross my fingers, spin on my head and pray three times to a statue of Steve Jobs before it would work (and even then it would do weird stuff).
The only downside of using iMovie is that it doesn't have the camera archive feature.
I really don't understand why, with $120 billion in the bank, Apple seems to be churning out software as an afterthought. No, software is not where they make their money, but they are ruining their reputation. Ah, well, first world problems.

Problem with compressor 2.01

Hallo everyone.
I've a great problem with compressor 2.01 and Final cut pro 5.04.
When I try to export a movie from final cut to compressor, all the two application crash.
All is regular when I export the movie with Quick time.
This happens to me for the first time I used Final cut.
The second problem is that when I try to reinstall compressor from the original CD, compressor is gray and not black.
I've used yet every possibilities also with Disk warrior applcation without succes
Please help me. Thank you

You need to update to Compressor 2.3.1 for Leopard compatibility.
Use Software Update, under the Apple menu item at top left of your screen, or look here: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/download/

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