Qmaster and AE6.5

Hi,
I have created already a cluster controller with 11 service nodes, installed already the AE6.5, the necessary plugins and qmaster software on all nodes, created also a cluster in qadministration.
When i tried to submit batches in my cluster it is successful but the output files is no where to be found. can anyone help me with this qmaster and AE.
I have read also the forum here about qmaster and AE done everything they told, mounted all the shred drive but still no output files. though my cluster is running, receiving jobs and processing and generating an status of Succesful Progress... After Effects succesfully launched
this is my unix template
/Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ 6.5/aerender -project /Volumes/render-1.local/project/test6.5\ folder/test6.5.aep -comp "Comp 1" -RStemplate "Multi-Machine Settings" -OMtemplate "Multi-Machine Sequence" -s 1 -e 25 -i 1 -output /Volumes/render-1.local/output/test[#####].psd
help anybody!

hi johnaris,
in your unix template:
/Applications/Adobe\ After\ Effects\ 6.5/aerender -project /Volumes/render-1.local/project/test6.5\ folder/test6.5.aep -comp "Comp 1" -RStemplate "Multi-Machine Settings" -OMtemplate "Multi-Machine Sequence" -s 1 -e 25 -i 1 -output /Volumes/render-1.local/output/test[#####].psd
there is basically nothing wrong with it. your render nodes are working well. the reason why only one service node is rendering your submitted job is that, you were only submitting 25-frames to render.
By default, qmaster allocates 10-frames each segment (minimum number of frames in each apple qmaster segment). Because your submitted job is 25-frames, Qmaster will divide them into 2 segments of 10 frames each. Mac Minis have 2 cpus, therefore the frames were being accomodated into one mac mini.
For this, try lowering the number of minimum value to 5 under the "Minimum" field. This way, apple qmaster divides the job into 5-segments of 5-frames each. You should have 3 service nodes running with this scenario.
If you like, try setting the minimum value to 1 so qmaster divides the job into 25-segments of 1-frame each. With this, all your 11-macminis (service nodes) should be working.
regarding that "unix error command 9" -- no idea...
hope that helps.
cheers!
nante

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File read in 0 seconds.
Result: /Volumes/Animation/rendFarmTest/scenes/smileyCube.mb
mental ray for Maya 7.0
// mental ray for Maya: using startup file /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc
mental ray for Maya: setup
mental ray for Maya: initialize
mental ray: version 3.4.5.2, 06 July 2005
mental ray for Maya: using 1 license
mental ray for Maya: register extensions
// mental ray Node Factory: loaded
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/base.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/contour.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/paint.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/physics.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/subsurface.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
mental ray for Maya: successfully registered
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
Marks-G5-2-0:~ mark$
When I run this in the terminal it renders to the network drive great and appears to work.
Looks like that worked. So now that I have maya installed on my server I get a different message in Qmaster after it's done.
Submission Time: 10/20/06 2:33:14 PM
Sent By: thomesm
Time Elapsed: 3 sec.
Percent Completed: 100
Status: Successful: metal ray: allocated 1 MB, max resident 2 MB, RSS 0 MB
So I've made progress I guess, but I don't have any rendered frames in my images folder. So I don't know where it's putting them.
Dual 2.3Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Qmaster and Missing files

Hi all!
I have a small Qmaster queue up and running (surprisingly) for Final Cut Pro 5.1. It runs smoothly most of the time, but when a user submits a job with a missing file, each node pops a window asking if you would like to reconnect the media or to continue. These windows stay on the system and block the node from doing any further work until I find out about the problem, and clear the pop up window.
I'd like to know if there is a way to block these windows from popping up by choosing a default "continue" behavior, or better yet to error out. I looked through all the prefs and couldn't really come up with anything.
Any other ideas on how to get around this problem? I've trained the users to preflight their files, but this is going to pop up no matter how many times I hit them over the head. Thanks!
~half.italian
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I agree. It would be. But when you are dealing with many different users, mistakes happen occasionally. A mistake in this case means any node that picked up the job is hung until someone clicks a little pop up window on each of the nodes.
I understand where you are coming from, but it's my job to make sure the nodes are always running properly. I can't ultimately control whether a user submits a job with a piece of media local to the machine unless I stand in each of the rooms at all times.
The only way I can see to guarantee that the nodes don't get hung up for this problem is to figure out a way for the system to deal with a missing file when and if it occurs.

Qmaster and AE6.5

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