User Guide

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 You can change the value in the Minimum field to change the minimum number of
frames in each Apple Qmaster segment. For example, with a minimum value of 10
(the default), Apple Qmaster would divide a 100-frame job into at least 10 segments
of 10 frames each. If you changed the minimum value to 5, Apple Qmaster would
divide a 100-frame job into at least 20 segments of 5 frames each. (When you set a
minimum, keep in mind that while smaller segments allow a job to be distributed to
more nodes at once, smaller segments can also mean that more processing effort is
spent on opening and closing Shake on each node.)
 Though the Monitor pop-up menu corresponds to a Shake command option, it
requires some explanation in the context of this dialog. The pop-up menu lets you
choose whether or not to display each frame as it renders. If you don’t want to see
the frames as they render, choose None. To see the frames as they render, choose a
display from the Monitor pop-up menu, then specify the FileOut node in the Options
field. For example: –node nodename. (If the script has only one FileOut node, there is
no need to specify it.)
c If you want to, add other command-line options to the Options field.
With the exception of the
Minimum setting, each setting
in the dialog corresponds to a
commonly used Shake
command or option. Refer to
the Shake documentation for
more information.
You can further customize the
batch instructions by adding
command-line options here.
The full command is
displayed here.