Apple Qmaster is a system made by

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that provides

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work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake,

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and any

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command-line program. It processes such jobs on a

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of Macs or Xserves.

History

Qmaster was introduced as part of Shake 3,Apple announces Shake 3
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) networking technology. It was later available with Shake and as part of DVD Studio Pro (until those products were discontinued in 2011), and is now available exclusively with

. Qmaster clusters could be created and managed using Apple's Qadministrator app, which was included with Shake,

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External links and references

Apple Qmaster Support

Apple Qmaster 3 manual
(PDF)

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References

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