The Apple Qmaster distributed processing system provides an efficient solution to your transcoding and rendering needs, handling all the work distribution and processing for you, behind the scenes. Apple Qmaster and the Apple Qmaster features of Compressor manage the processing across designated computers. They subdivide the work for speed, route the work to the computers with the most available computing power, and direct the processing.
The Apple Qmaster system uses the processing capacity of your network computers for a wide range of tasks, including transcoding and rendering for digital visual effects software packages such as Apple Shake, Adobe After Effects, and Autodesk Maya.
Compressor includes This Computer Plus and QuickCluster features that make it easy and quick to set up a distributed processing system that meets the needs of most users. It also includes Apple Qadministrator for those users in large facilities that need to set up dedicated distributed processing systems shared with multiple clients.
Important: Apple Qadministrator 4 is designed to work closely with Final Cut Pro X and later and Motion 5 and later. All mentions of Final Cut Pro and Motion in this document refer to these versions.