I am at a post production facility that is running 6 of the 2.7 GHz 12 Core Xeon trashcans with 64 GB RAM Each. Pretty sweet setup.
My issue is that in Compressor 4.1.3 I am having trouble replicating the speed I used to get with much older machines on a quick cluster. I can run an export of my 53 minute sequence, but it takes over an hour and a half with (apparently) 6 of the above computers setup as "shared computers" whereas, I used to be able to export an entire 60 minute show using compressor in under 25 minutes while connected to 3 total 2010 to 2012(ish) Mac Pros in a quick cluster.
I can not open the logs from the network encoding monitor, so I can't even see If I am connected to other computers (In what I used to call a cluster).
I guess my question is this, How do confirm that I am using any compressor instances on another computer? How do I get my 6 computers to act like a cluster (in qmaster) and why are my speeds so slow when the computers are 100x faster?
Another question, When I am outputting an H264 at "single pass" it looks like my distributed processors are all idle but if I do multi pass I have the option of job segmenting and it opens up the other "instances" is that correct?
I know Apple is trying to streamline compressor, but with qmaster, I always knew when I was connected to a cluster. Now it's just a massive cluster F. Please help!!!
Compressor, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 2.7 GHz 12 Core Xeon
