Q: QuickCluster doesn't appear in Compressor 3.5.3
I am having the following issue with Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 and Compressor 3.5.3. Please note that utilizing multiple cores for encoding HAS WORKED IN THE PAST for me on this very computer. One day, I couldn't access my cluster, and I can't figure out why. Nor can I seem to fix it via any of the threads I've found on this board.
The cluster should be set up properly because it shows up as an "Idle" Service when I click on the Qmaster icon in the menu bar, and the cluster also appears - and I can even select it - in the Batch Monitor. However, whether I use the "Send To" function from Final Cut, or render out a self-contained movie and add the file to Compressor, the cluster does not appear in the Pop-Down menu where I should be able to select it after submitting the batch.
This worked for me right after I purchased this system in November of 2011... somewhere along the line, the cluster stopped appearing as described above, and I have not been able to get it back since. I've read various reasons for this problem, but no one has any solutions in the past 3 years. All the threads I can find instructing me to how to properly fix this are from around 2009, and 2 or 3 OS X's prior. One person said that only Compressor 4 could access multiple cores, as it is a 64-bit application and mine is only 32-bit, but I have gotten this to work in the past so that can't be a reason.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated. This computer encoded SO much faster when I could access all 8 cores.
Final Cut Studio '09, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
Posted on Sep 4, 2012 8:55 PM
cinEmotion pictures wrote:
I can also say that I just used FCS Remover to uninstall Compressor and Qmaster, then re-installed it using my FCS2 discs (per the process described in the 2nd link of the first reply to this thread), and now I can't even get Compressor to recognize the cluster at all anymore. I guess I could run Compressor Repair again now that I've re-installed, but that would pretty much put me where I was this morning before I ran Compressor Repair originally.
Sounds like the right approach to me. Your cluster setup may have been reset – which is probably a good idea anyway – starting from scratch. After entering new settings (see my comments in preceding post) close Qmaster and Compressor and run repair permissions in Disk Utility. Then run an encoding test and monitor in the Batch monitor.
Russ
Posted on Sep 13, 2012 1:12 PM

