Apple Qmaster

Infobox_Software
name = Qmaster



caption =
developer = Apple Inc.
latest_release_version = 3.0.4
latest_release_date = September 18, 2008
operating_system = Mac OS X
genre = Distributed processing
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/compressor/batch.html]

Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Alias Maya, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and any UNIX command-line program. It processes such jobs on a cluster of Macintosh or Xserve computers.

History

Qmaster was first introduced as part of version 3 of Shake [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/apr/06shake3.html] , to complement the Rendezvous networking technology (now Bonjour). It was later available as part of DVD Studio Pro, and is now available exclusively with Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio, or Shake.

External links and references

* [http://www.apple.com/support/qmaster/ Apple Qmaster Support]
* [http://support.apple.com/manuals/en/AppleQmaster_3_User_Manual.pdf Apple Qmaster 3 manual] (PDF)
* [http://www.macworld.com/article/49047/2006/01/marcchreateside.html Macworld Tutorial for simple setup]