Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 254)

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Services settings
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Rendering: Use this checkbox to enable or disable the Rendering service. Click its Options button
to open a dialog in which you can adjust the number of instances of a processing service. For
more information, see
Use virtual clusters to make the most of multicore computers on page 230.
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Compressor: Use this checkbox to enable or disable the Compressor service. Click its Options button
to open a dialog in which you can adjust the number of instances of a processing service. For more
information, see
Use virtual clusters to make the most of multicore computers on page 230.
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Require these services to only be used in managed clusters: Use this checkbox to make the shared
service unmanaged (the default) or managed. For more information, see
Enable managed and
unmanaged services on page 228.
QuickCluster settings
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Identify this QuickCluster as: Use this field to change the name of a QuickCluster. You can change
this name to something more meaningful if you like, because it’s the name used to identify this
computer in the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system, and the name that appears in the
Compressor Cluster pop-up menu or the Apple Qmaster Submit To pop-up menu.
For more information about QuickClusters, see
Set up a cluster controller using
QuickClusters on page 224.
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Include unmanaged services from other computers: Select this checkbox to have this QuickCluster
automatically use the available unmanaged computers on your network for distributed
processing. For more information, see
Enable managed and unmanaged services on page 228.
Security settings
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Require password: If you want to control who is able to include a specific service node or cluster
controller in a cluster, select this checkbox and enter a password in the dialog that appears. For
more information, see
Set a service password for including a computer in a cluster on page 231.
Advanced pane of the Apple Qmaster Sharing window
You can use the Advanced pane within the Apple Qmaster Sharing window to further configure
your distributed processing system.