The title comes from the fact that I am running these tests in a machine that is more suited for cattle rustling than speedy file creation. After a frustrating day of making example files for a client, I realized I could not give the same estimates that I was used to in regards to when compressions would be ready. In an attempt to get to know my new full time workstation, I needed to put it through the paces to figure out what it can be depended on to do. Also I have primarily used Soreson Squeeze and Autodesk Cleaner XL to make all my files so this was a chance to familiarize myself a little more with Apple Compressor and MPEG StreamClip, a program I had never used before but heard amazing things about. After that initial horrendous day of crunching frames, I was moaning on twitter about my experiences and Justin Lee (@justinLanier on Twitter) recommended making a virtual cluster through Qmaster to utilize more of the RAM. I found this article http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_multi_cores_stitzer.html

, in addition to many more, so decided to throw this new wrinkle into the mix as well. Overall, I am glad I did the whole More >