Apple Qmaster

Qmaster

Developed by	Apple Inc.
Latest release	3.0.5 / November 21, 2008
OS	Mac OS X
Type	Distributed processing
License	Proprietary
Website	[1]

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 [2], 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

• Apple Qmaster Support
• Apple Qmaster 3 manual (PDF)
• Macworld Tutorial for simple setup