Anybody here used/set-up Apple QMaster yet?

[David Bogie]

Check the Qmaster forum at apple.com

I have no idea why this tool even exists since the success rate is less than 10%. The few who can make it work love it. For the rest of us, Qmaster is a cruel joke. The apple forum is a cruel joke, too. Most of threads are self-answered.

https://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=954

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Arnie Schlissel]

FCP does not support that kind of external render. Maybe in a future release, but not now. I think they included Qmaster for people who use Compressor 2.x or Shake.

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[David Bogie]

[Arniepix] “FCP does not support that kind of external render. Maybe in a future release, but not now. “

Was that in the original inquiry? I didn’t look that carefully, but, yes or no, FCP does not do multiple machine rendering.

Qmaster remains on the list of stupidly obtuse, inexplicably non-Apple and non-Macintosh software provided for no reason since it does nothing.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jan Bliddal]

I thought about using Qmaster to speed up the encoding of som clips in Compressor, but decided against it when I read that Qmaster divides the clip by the number of Computers on the Qmaster network. That would in my case be my Own Mac mini and a PowerMac G5 Dual 2Ghz borrowed from work. The person who wrote the post told that qmaster send half the clip to his PowerMac G5 and half to the iMac G5 he had. The iMac used more the 3x the time to finish its half meaning that the Power Mac G5 would have finished the hole clip faster than the 2 combined. Qmaster migth provide improved encoding time on machines of similar speed but I agree it is not up to spec in a editing enviroment yet. Improvement for the next final cut studio maby

Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine

[Matt Callac]

I think my favorite part about QMaster is that even though it is in fact a part of Final Cut Studio software and you are entitled to 90 days free tech support for set up and stuff, QMaster set up is not part of the deal. I found that out the hard way after waiting about 45 min on hold with apple only to be told they couldn’t help me setting up the program. I think I wasted more time trying to set up the program than it would have ever saved me encoding.
-mattyc