What is Qmaster for? I have it but don't know what it is.

Qmaster is the "traffic cop" for network rendering. It is installed as part of FC Studio as Compressor v2 can now do network rendering via Qmaster. You can learn more about it on the Qmaster Support Site, or in the Compressor manual (Select "Help" in Compressor to view in PDF format).

"Can I trash Qmaster?"

Don't know. If you're never going to do network rendering, I guess it depends on whether future updates to FC Studio require all originally installed Studio apps to remain in situ.

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"Can I trash Qmaster?"

Why would you need to? It doesn't effect your Mac's performance, it's not taking up a bunch of space, so what's the point? Even if you just set up a little home network and want to do distributed encoding or rendering with DVDSP, Qmaster is your ticket.

You cannot trash Qmaster without breaking Compressor. I believe they are one in the same, as Compressor uses qmasterd. If its not running, you get the "cannot connect to background process" thing. This has been the case since Compressor 1.x, so compressor must have used it from the beginning.

You can use Qmaster with any frame based renderer. Renderman, After effects, Maya, Shake, etc. Also, the Qmaster tools are needed to create clusters that Compressor can use. I actually used Compressor and Qmaster for awhile, and recently checked out distributed Compressor. It really speeds things up and works great.

compresser aye? Ill have to look for that

Okay, everyone, please forgive my ignorance, but I am trying to educate myself and need a little bit of help here. Thank you, blink, for the description of what QMaster is . . . but I'm actually still a little bit confused . . .

What is "network rendering"? Although I imagine some of you at this point might be thinking "Sheesh, kid, if you don't even know what network rendering is, then we can't help you.", I don't want to mix up my terms by thinking "network rendering" is something that it might very well not be.

Thank you very much for your asistance,
Javier Calderon

Ah . . . wait a minute . . . Is "network rendering" that which pertains to multiple computers "networking" together? So is QMaster a program that allows you to manage render tasks that are designated to projects that have multiple computers all working simultaneously?

Hmmm . . . somebody help me please. 🙂

Javier

Yes.

Qmaster allows someone running say Shake or Compressor to send their rendering or compression job to be executed upon a number of machines on the local network, thus allowing the job to be tackled faster.

If you have several machines at home, you could do the same.

Thank you, Nic. I actually had a member answer the question as well - quite thoroughly - in the following other thread (for anyone who's interested).

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b71f55

what about the question about trashing qmaster if you only have one computer?

You cannot trash qmaster. it is an integrated part of Compressor.

HOW DO YOU RUN QMASTER? I HAVE THE SAME "UNABLE TO CONNECT..." MESSAGE AND I'VE TO TYPE "SUDO /LIBRARY/..." IN TERMINAL TO BE ABLE TO SUBMIT A BATCH SUCCESSFULLY...

CAN YOU HELP?