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Manually add a computer to a group of shared computers
If a computer doesn’t appear in your list of available computers, you can add it manually.
1 Select the shared computer group (in the list on the left) to which you want to add a computer.
2 Click the Add button at the bottom of the list of networked computers (on the right).
3 In the window that appears, enter the computer’s host name or IP address, and click Add.
The new computer appears in the selected shared computer group.
To temporarily disable the computer that you manually added to the group, deselect the
computer’s checkbox.
To remove the computer that you manually added to the group, select the computer (in the list
on the right) and then click the Remove button .
Transcode a batch using a group of shared computers
After you’ve created a shared computer group and added computers to the group, you can
congure and submit a batch of jobs for transcoding as you normally would.
m Before pressing the Submit Batch button, choose the group of computers that you want to use
to process your batch.
View the progress or history of a batch that was transcoded by a group of shared computers
After submitting a batch to be transcoded by a group of shared computers, you can nd
information about the transcoding status.
m Open any of the following views:
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Active view: After you submit a batch, the Compressor window automatically switches to Active
view to show the progress of the transcode.
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Completed view: Click the Completed button at the top of the Compressor window. After a
batch is transcoded, information about the job, including the settings and job action used to
transcode the source le, is displayed here.
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Network Encoding Monitor: Choose Window > Network Encoding Monitor (or press
Command-E). The Network Encoding Monitor displays information about how your computer
is being shared, including processor usage, batch processing information, disk space usage,
and data activity.
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Logs window: Click the Open All Logs button in the Network Encoding Monitor to display the
Logs window. You can use the log information displayed here for troubleshooting distributed
processing issues. You can save this information to a le and process it with XML tools and
UNIX scripts.
Important: The log le is deleted when you close the Logs window.
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