Q: Very slow even with instances.
Hi all, I am trying to compress a bunch of my own videos to save space. I have Compressor 4.2.2 on El Capitan 10.11.5, all latest software. My specs are:
iMac 5K Late 2015
4Ghz Quad Core i7, hyper threaded to 8 logical cores
32 Gigs RAM
AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
I am exporting from H.264 source into MPEG-4 with H.264. I'm getting very slow times, and it gets even slower when I add one instance. I also edited the preference .plist file for compressor and added more instances than I was allowed by default as it was not maxing my CPU. Whether I have 1 instance (as compressor allows me) or 4 instances (which uses 90% of my CPU in activity monitor) it seems much slower than single instance. Why? My iMac is the highest end model, and has 8 logical cores, how can it be that its so slow in exporting when I use more instances? Its already really slow with just one instance. How can I speed this up?
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Jul 3, 2016 3:18 AM