Compressor 4 - Stage 5: Specifying Media File and Script Locations

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Specifying Media File and Script Locations

The following additional configuration guidelines apply to anyone using Shake (or any
other UNIX-based rendering applications):

Specifying the Media File Locations in Shake Scripts: As you follow the steps in

Setting

Up for Part-Time Distributed Processing with Shake

, all the Shake render scripts should

specify their source media (File In) locations and output (File Out) destinations as
/Volumes/MediaDiskName/ (for example, /Volumes/Media3/).

Specifying Shake Script Locations in Apple Qmaster: As you follow the steps in

Setting

Up for Part-Time Distributed Processing with Shake

, all the Shake script locations should

be specified in Apple Qmaster as /Volumes/MediaDiskName/ScriptFilename (for example,
/Volumes/Media3/Script.shk).

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Apple Qmaster and Distributed Processing

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Compressor keyboard shortcuts can maximize your efficiency with Compressor.

This appendix covers the following:

General Compressor Keyboard Shortcuts

(p. 387)

Preview Window Keyboard Shortcuts

(p. 388)

General Compressor Keyboard Shortcuts

Function

Keyboard shortcut

Brings the History window to the front.

1

Brings the Preview window to the front.

2

Brings the Settings tab to the front.

3

Brings the Destinations tab to the front.

4

Closes the current window.

shift

W

Show/hide the Batch window’s toolbar.

option

T

Revert to the original window layout.

shift

control

U

Opens the Preferences window.

,

Creates a new batch. The Batch Template Chooser appears unless
it has been disabled.

N

Creates a new batch with the Batch Template Chooser appearing,
even if it has been disabled.

shift

N

Saves the current batch.

S

Saves the current batch as a new batch.

shift

S

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