Apple Qmaster 4 - Manual (Page 21)

• 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.
• Minimum field: You can change the value in the Minimum field to change the minimum
number of frames in each Apple Qmaster segment. For example, with a minimum value
of 10 (the default), Apple Qmaster would divide a 100-frame job into at least 10
segments of 10 frames each. If you changed the minimum value to 5, Apple Qmaster
would divide a 100-frame job into at least 20 segments of 5 frames each. (When you
set a minimum, keep in mind that although smaller segments allow a job to be
distributed to more nodes at once, smaller segments can also mean that more
processing effort is spent on opening and closing Shake on each node.)
Proxies Details
• Use checkbox: This checkbox activates the Proxies feature. Refer to the Shake
documentation for more information.
• Proxy buttons: Although the four default proxy settings are identical in both Shake and
Apple Qmaster, they have slightly different names in each application. The list below
indicates the corresponding names. The Apple Qmaster name is in italics, followed by
the corresponding Shake name:
• P1: Base
• P2: P1
• P3: P2
• P4: P3
Refer to the Shake documentation for more information.
• Scale pop-up menu: Refer to the Shake documentation for more information.
• Proxy Ratio pop-up menu: Refer to the Shake documentation for more information.
Motion Blur Details
• Motion Blur pop-up menu: The Motion Blur pop-up menu contains several options for
configuring motion blur settings.
• Default for script: Retains custom motion blur settings from the original Shake script.
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