Apple Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Manual (Page 38)

Adding Compressor Formats
Podcast Composer supports encoding formats that you create using the Compressor
application. However, you must first install Compressor on your computer. For more
information on how to install Compressor, see the Compressor documentation.
To add Compressor encoding formats to the Export stage:
1 In Podcast Composer, go to the Export stage (choose Stages > Export or press
Command-4).
2 Click the Add (+) button.
3 From the pop-up menu, choose Compressor.
A Compressor encoder is added to the Export stage and a dialog appears.
4 From the Compressor Encoder pop-up menu, choose the encoder you want to use.
This menu shows the custom encodings you created using Compressor.
5 To use the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system to speed up the encoding
process, click “Use remote Qmaster” enter the required information.
Apple Qmaster speeds up encoding of a movie at a time by dividing the total number
of frames in a job into smaller segments. Each of the processing computers then works
on a different segment. Because the nodes are working in parallel, the job is finished
sooner than it would be on a single computer.
Note: To produce a podcast as fast as possible, use Compressor (running on Xgrid) and
Qmaster (with segment and encoding setup). To produce many podcasts as fast as
possible, use default encoders or Compressor running on Xgrid.
For more information about the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system, see
Apple Qmaster 2 and Compressor 2 Distributed Processing Setup.
6 Click Done.
7 Choose File > Save.
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