Proxies in Compressor

[Dave French]

Are there different steps involved when using Compressor to render the QT proxies to ProRes as opposed to just rendering regular QT files to ProRes in Compressor? No problems using other QT's in Compressor but the red proxies always produce an error saying no audio or video detected and the render fails. All the latest versions of FCP, Leopard, Quicktime, RedCode codec, etc are installed.

Thanks
Dave

 

[Kaku Ito]

I had some luck using compressor with Wrapped QT clips made from L&T.

 

[Dave French]

Thanks.

I'm just looking at creating ProRes from the Proxies. I don't want the extra step of having to create the wrapped QT's in L & T.

Dave

 

[Rainer Fritz]

Thanks.

I'm just looking at creating ProRes from the Proxies. I don't want the extra step of having to create the wrapped QT's in L & T.

Dave

use Clipfinder or Redrushes....

 

[Dave French]

Thanks.

I want to distribute render this though over multiple CPU's. And a proxy through Comprossor seemed like the fastest way.

 

[jimhare]

If I'm not mistaken, the new log and transfer will make ProRes pretty quickly. I think you can tie in a color space and ISO as well so it looks like a good option.

 

[Dave French]

But can you distribute render the Log and Transfer process?

 

[Kaku Ito]

But can you distribute render the Log and Transfer process?

I don't think so, FCP rendering or export processing can be sent to Compressor with cluster settings, then Compressor actually use multiple FCP licenses on each clustered machine to do the Qmaster rendering, but not L&T.

Converting Proress in L&T is still slow to me (Wrapped QT is fast, I like it), so I'm on the same search to do easier ways to utilize Qmaster.

At least now, the way I described, sending compressor the wrapped QT would allow you to use the Qmaster. Including the support of applying the grading with RedAlert!. I'm pretty happy with that.

 

[Dave French]

Thanks

We're trying to avoid the extra step of wrapping the Quicktime. Have had some success re-creating the proxies in Red Alert, so I think the problem lies with the proxy created in the camera. Still working on the distributed rendering part. Other normal quicktimes distribute fine but the proxy renders do not seem to be utilizing the full processing power of the CPU's.

Anyone else successfully have this working?