Qmaster 3
by Nicholastoth
on
Oct 5, 2007 at 6:39:38 pm
This is kind of a shake post. Has more to do with the Qmaster.
Does anyone know of any good resources for Qmaster 3? We're trying to pipeline our After Effects projects into Qmaster instead of doing the runaround network rendering within AE.
Re: Qmaster 3 by Andrew Shanks on Oct 16, 2007 at 3:17:34 am
It appears you can (even with old qmaster 2), ...just looks like a bit of fun to get it to do the job. I have no idea if they have made the process any easier in the current version).
Here is the apple docs on it (Andrew Yoole on the adobe forum site came across this, but am reprinting it here for others in the same boat and in case the old docs are gone from the link below).
Apple Qmaster and After Effects If you use the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system with Adobe After Effects,
please review the following guidelines:
In order to use After Effects with Apple Qmaster, the After Effects application and all of
its plug-ins must be installed on each node (computer) in an Apple Qmaster cluster.
The following template is a good starting point for using the Generic Render plug-in
to render After Effects projects:
[EXECUTABLE] -project [INPUT] -comp "Comp 1" -RStemplate "Multi-Machine
Settings" -OMtemplate "Multi-Machine Sequence" -s [START FRAME] -e
[END FRAME] -output [ITEM]/strategies[####].psd
Where:
[EXECUTABLE] = /Applications/Adobe After Effects 6.5/aerender
[INPUT] = /SHARED_VOLUME/Projects/AEProjs/Wine_Country/QMproject.aep
[START FRAME] = 0
[END FRAME] = 544
[STEPS] = Not Used
[ITEM] = /SHARED_VOLUME/Projects/AEProjs/Wine_Country/output
In the example above, ?Comp 1? is the name of the composition in your After Effects
project and ?strategies[####].psd? is the output file name. Since you cannot select an
output filename in the template?s Item field before it has been rendered, first select
the output directory, then add the filename to the Item field.
Note: In the example, /SHARED_VOLUME/Projects/ is the shared volume. If you
created the project on a computer that is not using the shared volume, copy the
project to the shared volume, open After Effects, and re-link any missing media.
After Effects makes good use of multiprocessor systems, but on projects that are not
CPU-bound, two rendering services per node gives you better results.
After Effects custom template information is stored in Users/username/Library/ Preferences/Adobe After Effects 6.5 Prefs/. If you would like to use custom Render Setting and Output Module templates in an Apple Qmaster cluster, copy this file to
the same location on each node in the cluster. Then you can specify your templates when using the -RStemplate or -OMtemplate options.
