Footage.

7:05 pm

Shipping December 29th. Importantly, the P2 prices dropped over half in price. I was all ready to make do with a 2GB card, and now 8GB costs the same amount. Woot. And the trend should only continue in the future. In a year or two, they’ll be giving away 128GB cards with cereal boxes.

My brother promised me another 450GB of space once he clears it off. Staples had 50 packs of DVD-R disks for $8. Bought a couple and decided to finally make proper backups of all my data. Then all I gotta do is make sure I’m keeping up to date going forward. The piece of tech that would be super-cool is a DVD autoloader combined with a jukebox.

12:06 pm

Scratch that previous bit about qmaster being easy to set up. Woke up to find all the renders had stalled, wasted a bunch of time getting the whole thing working again. Some notes:

• Traffic appears to be routed through the box that submits the jobs, so the submission machine needs to be left on the network.
• If you delete a controller, you have to reassign its slave nodes to the pool before creating a new one, else they will quietly (and invisibly) wait for the original to return.
• Compressor stores locations as relative to its current location, i.e. if you submit your batch from the box that shares the network drive none of the other nodes will be able to find the files.
• Each node needs a different serial, else you will get Quicktime Error: -50.
• The simplest setup seems to be a controller that runs Compressor (submitting the jobs), linked to another box that maintains the network volume/is a slave node. From there you can add additional slave nodes that see the network volume.

1:58 am