User manual APPLE COMPRESSOR BATCH MONITOR USER MANUAL

[. . . ]  Info button: Opens the Status Information window, which gives detailed information on either a batch or job currently being transcoded or a completed batch or job listed in the History table.  Update button: Updates information shown in the Batch Monitor.  Status table: Lists details of batches and jobs currently being transcoded. You can use Batch Monitor Preferences to determine which headings appear. [. . . ] (In Batch Monitor Preferences, you can choose which columns to display. ) Tip: Drag a column label to reposition its order in the table.  Submission Time: Date and time at which the batch was submitted for processing.  Sent By: Name of the batch owner (the user who submitted the batch).  Target: If a target (for example, an output format) was specified in the batch submission, it is listed here.  Segment: If the job was subdivided into segments for distributed processing, the segment is listed here. 4  Job Type: Name of the application (Compressor, Apple Qmaster, etc. ) that is submitting the batch.  Priority: Priority level for an entire batch, not for individual jobs. (Defaults to High. ) High-priority batches get processed before medium-priority batches.  Time Elapsed: Time elapsed since transcoding of the batch or job began. The batch number shown is always the overall time, while the job time can be either the same or less time.  Time Remaining: Estimated time remaining to process the batch.  Status: State of the batch (for example, Waiting or Processing).  Progress: Progress meter indicating the amount of processing completed. History Table This table includes the following:  Batch Name: Name given to the batch when it was submitted  Sent By: Name of the batch owner (the user who submitted the batch)  Priority: Batch priority level  Status: State of the batch (for example, Canceled) Note: You can click the disclosure triangles next to batch names in both the Status table and the History table to reveal details on individual jobs and elements of jobs. Distributed Processing Features  Cluster pop-up menu: Choose the cluster you want to monitor. (If there is only one cluster on your Apple Qmaster network, there is no need to select a cluster. )  Lock button: Click to enter a cluster password that allows you to view the status of batches. If you opened the Batch Monitor from Apple Qadministrator, enter your cluster administrator password here to view all the batches in this cluster. Otherwise, enter your cluster user password to view your own batches in this cluster. For more information on using the Batch Monitor with a distributed processing network, see "Batch Monitor and Distributed Processing" on page 7. 5 Viewing Detailed Status Information for a Submitted Batch You can check detailed transcoding results of a submitted batch by opening the Status Information window. To view detailed status information for a submitted batch: m Select either a batch or a particular job in a batch from the Status or History table and click the Info button. The Status Information window appears with the following detailed information about either the selected batch or job:     Batch Name: In bold. Time Elapsed: Time elapsed since transcoding of the batch or job began. The batch number shown is always the overall time, while the job time can be either the same or less time.  Percent Completed: Percentage of completion dynamically displayed as a number between 1 and 100. Possible transcoding states are Successful, Canceled, or Failed (with relevant error messages describing the failure). 6 Batch Monitor and Distributed Processing If you have set up an Apple Qmaster distributed processing system to process Compressor or Apple Qmaster jobs, then Batch Monitor will offer some additional features. [. . . ]  Click the disclosure triangle next to a batch name for information about individual jobs, and the triangle next to the job name to see any segments into which a job has been subdivided.  Click the disclosure triangle next to a batch name in the History table to see if individual jobs in the batch transcoded successfully. If the Status column for a batch or job in the History table displays Successful, it was successfully completed. If not, text describing the status appears there. 8 Note: Client users cannot modify other users' batches: When they select a batch or job submitted by another user, the Stop, Resume, and Delete buttons are not available. [. . . ]