# Master setup

The master is in charge of the encoding process. There you have to do all the setup like usually (filters etc.) and finish with "Save as AVI..." (default key F7). Don't forget to check "Add operation to job list"! This way you can prepare to encode more than one movie and encode them in one net distributed session.

To start encoding, first go to the job window (default key F4). You should see something similar to the following picture. To get the computers on your network hit the "Update" button ([b]Warning![/b] This can take a lot of time in a large network!).

Hit "Master" to connect all running slaves.

"Abort" disconnects and goes back to normal operation mode. To begin the distributed encoding process hit "Start".
You can configure block size and process priority. Changes during an encoding process will take effect as soon as the next part is started.
The entered priority only applies to the local computer and is also used for normal encoding tasks (without master/slave).
The segment length can be changed during encoding without problems, the only limit is a maximum of 512 segments (e.g. with 1 min -> 8h 32 mins max of movie).
If you check the menu item "Always restart jobs" all exsisiting .parts files are ignored. If you reencode videos (e.g. to try out diffrent settings or to encode a show with the same name regularely) this setting allows jobs to be reencoded completely. If you deactivate this option, the information from the .parts files are used to reencode just the unencoded parts. That way you can always abort a running job and continue it later - the already encode parts won't be reencoded.
The colored bar shows the segments of the video. Completed parts are shown in dark green, untouched ones in grey and segants that are currently worked on are shown in light green and red, according to the respective encoding progress. It is normal that the total encoding process doesn't necessarily start from the beginning, the right order will be rerstored when the complete movie is assbled at the end.
Black lines denote the segment borders. If more that one source video is used, each one is automatically one segment that can be split further later.

A | Host names
B | Connection status
C | Region that's currently being encoded by the respective host
D | Encoding progress
E | Encoding speed
F | Encoding progress of the local computer
G | Visual representation of the segments
H | Encoding progress of the complete movie
1 | Stop after sompleteing the current job
2 | Stop immediately
3 | Shut down local computer after all jobs are finished
4 | Refresh host list
5 | Shut down all clients after all jobs are finished - doesn't apply to the master (see 3).