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| Apple Qmaster | |
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
| Stable release | 3.5.2[1] / July 19, 2010; (13 years ago) |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Type | Distributed processing |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Apple Qmaster website |
Apple Qmaster is a system made byApple Inc. that providesautomated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certaindigital visual effects software packages:Shake,Autodesk Maya,Final Cut Pro,Compressor,DVD Studio Pro and anyUNIX command-line program. It processes such jobs on acluster ofMacs orXserves.
Qmaster was introduced as part ofShake 3,[2] to complement the Rendezvous (nowBonjour) networking technology. It was later available with Shake and as part of DVD Studio Pro (until those products were discontinued in 2011), and is now available exclusively withCompressor.
Qmaster clusters could be created and managed using Apple's Qadministrator app, which was included with Shake,Final Cut Studio andLogic Studio.
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