Apple Share Monitor 4 User Manual

Share Monitor
User Guide
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Contents

4 Chapter 1: What is Share Monitor?
5 Chapter 2: Share Monitor window
6 Chapter 3: View information about transcoded les
7 Chapter 4: Customize Share Monitor preferences
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What is Share Monitor?
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Share Monitor is an application that displays the status of les submitted for transcoding
from Motion and from Compressor droplets. You can use Share Monitor to view and manage transcoding processes and to get information about the items you’ve transcoded.
Open Share Monitor from Compressor
You can open Share Monitor from a droplet (a small application that performs specic
transcoding tasks) created in Compressor.
m After adding a le to the droplet to start the transcode, choose Droplet > Open Share Monitor.
For more information about droplets, see Compressor Help at http://help.apple.com/compressor.
Open Share Monitor from Motion
Do one of the following:
m Choose Share > Show Share Monitor.
If Share Monitor doesn’t appear in the foreground, click the the Share Monitor icon in the Dock.
m After exporting a project using one of the Motion Share menu options, click the Share Monitor
icon that appears in the Dock.
For more information, see Motion Help at http://help.apple.com/motion.
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User
Toolbar
Status
Share Monitor window
The Share Monitor window includes the following areas:
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buttons
Display area: View items submitted for transcoding in this area.
Toolbar buttons: Use these buttons to refresh the window and to expand, collapse, and sort items in the display area.
User buttons: Select one of these buttons to sort items by user.
All: Displays all items that have been submitted.
Me: Displays items you submitted.
Status buttons: Select one of these buttons to sort items by job status.
All: Displays all items for the selected computer.
Active: Displays items that the selected computer is currently transcoding.
Completed: Displays items that the selected computer has transcoded.
buttons
buttons
Batch display
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Click the disclosure triangle
View information about
transcoded les
You can view and manage transcoding processes in the Share Monitor window.
View information about items you submitted for transcoding
1 Open Share Monitor from a Compressor droplet or from Motion.
2 To reveal information about the item you are transcoding, click the item’s disclosure triangle.
You can also pause, resume, and cancel transcoding and view additional information about an item by clicking the appropriate button to the right of the item.
next to an item to reveal more information.
When the progress bar reaches 100 percent, the item has been successfully transcoded and is saved in the designated location. Completed items are marked “Successful.” Unsuccessfully transcoded items are marked “Failed.”
Pause/Resume
Show Info
Cancel
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Customize Share Monitor preferences
Most of the information displayed in Share Monitor can be shown or hidden using settings in the Preferences window.
Set Share Monitor preferences
1 Choose Share Monitor > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
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2 To dene which items are shown in the Share Monitor display area, select one or more of the
View Options checkboxes:
Show Jobs: Select this checkbox to show the status of each transcoding job.
Show Targets: Select this checkbox to show the status of each output le (known as a target) in transcoding jobs that create multiple les. For example, when you create a DVD in Motion, the transcoding job outputs two les (targets), a Dolby Digital audio le and an MPEG-2 movie le.
Show Segments: Select this checkbox to show the status of transcoding jobs that have been assigned to multiple computers and split into multiple segments. For more information, see Compressor Help at http://help.apple.com/compressor.
3 To specify how often Share Monitor information is updated, enter a number in the “Update status
every # seconds” eld.
4 To apply the changes you made, click OK.
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