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Appendix
B
Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble with your Apple Qmaster distributed
processing system, look here for answers to your questions.
The appendix includes the following topics:
 Exporting from Final Cut Pro and Distributed Processing (p. 77)
 QuickTime Reference Movies (p. 80)
 Cluster Settings for Extended Transcoding Sessions (p. 80)
 Cleaning Up Cluster Storage (p. 80)
 Using Apple Qmaster 2 with an NFS Server (p. 80)
 Apple Qmaster Distributed Processing and Xsan (p. 80)
 Compressor Command-Line Usage Requires Login (p. 81)
Exporting from Final Cut Pro and Distributed Processing
You can use Compressor to transcode sequences or clips from within other
applications, such as Final Cut Pro. This saves time and hard disk space by eliminating
the need to export self-contained media files before processing them.
There are two methods you can use to avoid exporting self-contained media files for
Compressor distributed processing:
 Export a sequence directly from Final Cut Pro to Compressor and then submit that
job to a cluster in an Apple Qmaster distributed processing network. In this workflow,
Final Cut Pro opens on each processing node in that cluster to complete the job.
 Export the Final Cut Pro sequence as a QuickTime reference movie and then submit
the resulting movie to the cluster for processing. Although this method does not
require that Final Cut Pro be installed on each computer in the distributed
processing cluster, the media files specified in the reference movie must be available
to each computer in the cluster.