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Table Of Contents
- Apple Qmaster 3 User Manual
- Contents
- Welcome to Apple Qmaster
- Using Apple Qmaster 3
- The Apple Qmaster Distributed Processing System
- The Apple Qmaster Interface
- Installing Apple Qmaster, Shake, and Other Applications
- Setting Up Rendering Services and Shared Storage
- Submitting Batches for Apple Qmaster Processing
- Using Nodes Without Apple Qmaster Installed
- Setting Environment Variables in Apple Qmaster
- Using the Command Line in Apple Qmaster
- Installing Apple Qmaster from the Command Line
- Shell Commands for Configuring Service Nodes and Cluster Controllers
- Shell Commands for Submitting Apple Qmaster Jobs
- Shell Commands for Submitting Compressor Jobs
- Shell Commands for Monitoring Batches
- Using Scripts to Run Apple Qmaster, Compressor, and Batch Monitor
About the Shake Plug-in Dialog
The Shake Plug-In dialog contains the following settings.
With the exception of
the Minimum setting,
each setting in the
dialog corresponds
to a commonly used
Shake command or
option. Refer to the
Shake documentation
for more information.
Basic Shake Plug-in Dialog Details
• Shake field: The Shake field shows the location of the Shake application on your
computer.
• Script field: The Script field shows the location of the Shake project file. (You can also
drag the file to the Batch window to have the file location entered automatically.)
• “Ignore script failures” checkbox: This checkbox allows you to determine whether
Apple Qmaster should continue rendering all the frames of the script in the event that
Shake returns a non-zero UNIX command result. (In Apple Qmaster 2 and previous
versions, a job would always fail if any segment returned non-zero.) By default, this
checkbox is not selected. Select the checkbox if Apple Qmaster should ignore non-zero
UNIX command results.
• Start field: Sets the start frame for the job. Refer to the Shake documentation for more
information.
• End field: Sets the end frame for the job. Refer to the Shake documentation for more
information.
• Steps field: Refer to the Shake documentation for more information.
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