I tossed together a video tutorial on using multiple macs to do distributed processing with Compressor 4.

I found that Compressor 4 cannot talk to qmaster nodes on older macs running Compressor 3.5.  And in the case of my 1st generation mac mini it won't install Compressor 4 from the app store.  BUT I did find I could drag Compressor 4 to my mac mini manually and run it as a services only C4 qmaster node.  Thus I still get to use it for extra processing power in my Compressor 4 cluster.

I have been wondering how to setup chat room access using an IRC chat client for Mac OS Ken Live instead of using the webpage chat. The web page chat is Adobe flash based and sometimes flakes out.

Here I used the donationware IRC Client for Mac OS X - Colloquy.
http://colloquy.info/

See More to get the key steps to the setup.

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