Looking to do background transcoding of footage...

Like maybe I could drop clips into a folder and they'd be automatically queued to transcode....

Anyone work with this before?

2/22/2012 3:18:14 PM

you looking to build or rent?

2/22/2012 3:39:40 PM

build

2/22/2012 4:09:47 PM

Isn't this the sort of thing nVidia Tesla cards were made for?

2/22/2012 4:14:14 PM

^^

What kind of movies are you and Rob doing now?

2/22/2012 4:42:50 PM

^Maybe if you come back to visit we can chat about it!

^^
I have a bunch of idle CPU power that I could easily task with these in teh background. I see there are some open source solutions...

Was more curious if anyone has had to do this and if so, which solution was the best feature filled one...

2/22/2012 5:02:05 PM

I've only ever done it manually with virtualdubs frameserver and some custom scripting. And only between two computers.

The top shit solution is Apple's Compressor. http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/compressor/

For opensource/free solutions:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=117889
http://codergrid.invisionconnect.com/
http://download.cnet.com/xCode-Parallel-Encoder/3000-2194_4-10969011.html

2/22/2012 6:41:04 PM