Apple Qmaster
Appearance
Developer(s) | Apple Computer |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | Mac OS X |
Type | Distributed processing |
License | Proprietary |
Website | [1] |
Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Computer that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Alias Maya, 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 or Shake.