Advanced settings in Compressor
Use Advanced settings in Compressor to adjust additional settings for distributed processing. These advanced controls are intended for network administrators and other users with networking experience.
See Transcode batches with multiple computers using Compressor.
Enable additional Compressor instances: When unchecked, Compressor automatically attempts to process transcoding jobs using all available cores of your computer’s graphics processing engine. On Macs with Max or Ultra Apple Silicon processors, this may be the fastest transcoding option. Checking this box activates additional instances of the Compressor application, which can also potentially speed transcoding. After selecting the checkbox, you can choose the number of additional instances from the pop-up menu. See Create additional instances of Compressor.
Note: If your system doesn’t have enough memory or processor cores, this option is dimmed and not available.
Server Certificate: Usually, the server certificate that Compressor automatically creates is shown. However, if you have multiple server certificates on your computer, you can use this pop-up menu to choose between them, or to rename the certificates.
Use GPU to process Final Cut Pro content sent to Compressor: This checkbox instructs Compressor to use the computer’s graphics processing engine to display or transcode a Final Cut Pro project sent to Compressor for processing. If you’re running both Compressor and Final Cut Pro at the same time, enabling this setting may degrade Final Cut Pro performance. See Transcode Final Cut Pro and Motion projects in Compressor.
Use network interfaces: When you’ve allowed others to share your computer, you can restrict distributed processing activity to the network interface that you specify in the pop-up menu.
Enable port range from: When you’ve allowed others to share your computer, you can select this checkbox to set the ports on which distributed processing is run. After selecting the checkbox, enter the number at which you want to start the port range and the number of ports you want the range to contain.
Reset Queue: Click to reset the queue of Compressor jobs. After you click this button, you can choose to reset the queue and cancel all pending jobs, or reset the queue and then restart any pending jobs.
Update Droplets: Click to update all droplets on the local computer to be compatible with the current version of Compressor. Outdated droplets that are not updated may not function properly. After droplets are updated, they’ll no longer work on computers using older versions of Compressor. See Create and use droplets in Compressor.
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