Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual
Apple Software
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Compressor User Guide
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Compressor basics
- Chapter 2: Compressor workflows
- Chapter 3: Import source media
- Chapter 4: Assign settings and preview media
- Chapter 5: Custom settings and output formats
- Custom settings and output formats overview
- iTunes and Apple device output
- Create Blu-ray discs
- Dolby Digital Professional files
- MPEG-2 files
- AIFF files
- Common Audio Formats files
- MP3 files
- MPEG-1 files
- MPEG-4 files
- QuickTime movie files
- QuickTime Export Components files
- DV Stream files
- Create image sequence files
- Chapter 6: Assign destinations and submit batches
- Chapter 7: Advanced functions
- Chapter 8: Use Apple Qmaster to set up a distributed processing system
- What is Apple Qmaster?
- Distributed processing systems
- Create service nodes and cluster controllers
- Advanced service node and cluster controller information
- Use nodes without Compressor installed
- Enable managed and unmanaged services
- Schedule service availability
- Use virtual clusters to make the most of multicore computers
- Turn cluster controller services on or off
- Set a service password for including a computer in a cluster
- Use cluster storage
- Rendering services and shared storage setup
- Use distributed processing with Shake
- Recovery and failure notifications
- Process a batch
- Advanced rendering information
- Set environment variables in Apple Qmaster
- Manage Shake media files on a shared volume
- Shake plug-in dialog
- Generic Render dialog
- Use Mental Ray for Maya
- Use Apple Qmaster to submit UNIX commands
- Job segmenting and two-pass or multi-pass encoding
- Example: Submit After Effects batches with the Generic Render command
- Apple Qmaster window
- Apple Qmaster Sharing window
- Set Apple Qmaster preferences
- Chapter 9: Use Apple Qadministrator to create and modify clusters
- Chapter 10: Keyboard shortcuts