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QMaster Compressor Render failure
I got 91% of the way to finishing an NTSC to PAL conversion (90 min. film) using a QMaster cluster of three machines (2 G4s and 1 G5 as controller) before failing on a QT conflict on one machine (I stupidly tried to open an unrelated QT movie on the G5 after it had finished all of its rendering tasks for this job). The cluster storage render files are still in private/var/spool/qmaster… and all but two are 100% successful, meaning two segments (obviously the two that were sent to the G4s) are unfinished. Qmaster allows render files to stay in storage for a user-defined amount of time. I’m assuming this may be for possible fixes on failures. Does anyone know how I can get Qmaster to go back to this job and finish it using segments it’s already rendered? By the way, on my dual 1.8 GB G5 with 2.5 GB RAM it took around 1 hour per minute of video to convert — not the 30 min. per minute I read in MacWorld article on this topic, so as you may imagine, another 90 hours of rendering is not something I’m looking foward to. Any help or referral to the right source would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
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There is a low-traffic forum for QMaster on apple.com>support>discussions.
Although a few shops can get it to work, they are rare. The general consensus seems to be Qmaster is cruel joke.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks. I am beginning to realize the cruel joke. I even laughed on Day 3 when the failure message came up. And, just as we saw with FCP 1, the manual for Qmaster is about six pages long. Search on: Troubleshooting? What’s that?
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I spent more time trying to set the program up (which I never got to work) than it would have ever saved me on encoding.
-mattyc
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