I have a MacPro with 8 cores (16 virtual.) How do I set up Compressor 4.1.1 to use a specific number of cores? It was very easy under 3.5 but I am totally lost with 4.1.1. Thanks.
Mac Pro (Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Open Compressor's preference's, and go to Advanced. There is a checkbox to enable adiditional instances. In 4.1 and later, its limited to one additional instance for every 4 logical cpu cores. You should be able to select 3.
Open Compressor's preference's, and go to Advanced. There is a checkbox to enable adiditional instances. In 4.1 and later, its limited to one additional instance for every 4 logical cpu cores. You should be able to select 3.
Butdoesn't that imply that there will be fur complete applications running and not just the sub-routines?
No, it means an additional rendering instance. Compressor uses separate processes for encoding. This just enabled more of them. In the old version I think it was called Compressor Processing services in the Apple Qmaster menu.
Thanks. I is somewhat of a disappointment that the max number of rendering instances tops out at 3 instead of 14 or 15.
Well, I guess this time around its all about maximizing CPU usage. In previous versions I never did 1 service per core because having a video segmented into 32 pieces (16 instances x 2) just meant 16 processes running at 100% each, vs 6 pieces (3 at 533%) or 8 pieces (4 at 400%). All you can really do is maximize CPU. They maybe could have squeezed in one more instance, but with each instance enabled that is more RAM and another process requiring I/O. In the old version on a Mac Pro with 24 logical cores, I found 5 or 6 instances to be faster enabling 6+. A single instance by itself would use 400-600% CPU.
Thanks for the help.
How do I setup Compressor 4.1.1 to use multiple cores?
