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Delay:

Use these text fields to set a delay in hours or minutes for any job in the

batch. Click on either text field (left field = hours, right field = minutes) to enter the
corresponding value. Click the stepper to step through minutes in increments of 5 at
a time, or, if the Hour text field is selected, in increments of 1 hour at a time.

Submit:

Click the Submit button to process the batch using the parameters set in the

Apple Qmaster window.

Submitting Batches for Apple Qmaster Processing

Jobs are submitted in the form of a batch, and a batch can include one or more jobs.
Batches can be submitted from any computer that:

Has Apple Qmaster Applications installed

Is on the same network as the cluster to which you are submitting the batch

Note:

Certain bundled versions of Compressor 2 can also submit batches to the

Apple Qmaster distributed processing system. See the

Distributed Processing Setup

guide or the

Compressor 2 User Manual

for more information.

Submitting Batches With The Apple Qmaster Application

Apple Qmaster includes a plug-in for Shake, which automates and customizes the
process by which Shake batches are submitted with Apple Qmaster. Because of this,
the process for submitting Shake batches is more automated than is the process for
submitting batches for other applications that don’t have such plug-ins. A plug-in is
included for Alias Maya, as well as a generic Render Command plug-in for other frame-
based rendering applications, and a Shell Command plug-in that works with any
application that can be executed from the UNIX command line.

The plug-ins automatically set some default parameters for the job. They also provide a
dialog for you to adjust these parameters to your needs, and to add more command-
line options to each job.

To submit batches for Shake, see “

Submitting Shake Batches

,” below.

To submit batches for Maya, see “

Submitting Maya Batches

” on page 12.

To submit batches for other frame-based rendering applications, see “

Submitting

Batches With the Generic Render Command

” on page 13.

To submit batches for any application that can be executed from the UNIX command
line, see “

Using Apple Qmaster to Submit UNIX Commands