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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, Final Cut Pro,

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, DVD Studio Pro and any

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command-line program. It processes such jobs on a cluster of Macs or Xserves.

History

Qmaster was introduced as part of Shake 3,Apple announces Shake 3
/ref> to complement the Rendezvous (now Bonjour) 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, Final Cut Studio and

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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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