Return-Path: Received: from omr11.networksolutionsemail.com ([205.178.146.61] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4682844 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:49:11 +0200 Received: from cm-omr1 (mail.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.50]) by omr11.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q3BNnsnd018870 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:49:54 -0400 Authentication-Results: cm-omr1 smtp.user=chris@chriszwar.com; auth=pass (LOGIN) X-Authenticated-UID: chris@chriszwar.com Received: from [58.104.24.187] ([58.104.24.187:49348] helo=[10.1.1.5]) by cm-omr1 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.41 r(31179/31189)) with ESMTPA id B2/6E-23914-1A8168F4; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:49:54 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [AE] iMac and AE From: Chris Zwar In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:49:51 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <21315DB0-DD04-4464-A230-3261C00F2895@chriszwar.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) On 12/04/2012, at 8:42 AM, Teddy Gage wrote: > D) I have never seen a mac render farm.=20 Is this a common sentiment? Where I am working now they have a Mac = render farm, using 'Deadline' software. In fairness I've been using AE = for almost 15 years and I'd never seen an After Effects render farm = until a year ago. When you get the farm to yourself it's pretty magic - yesterday I had a = huge project being simultaneously rendered across 50 processes (just = under 20 Macs rendering two or three processes each). Something that = might take a few days to render on one machine can be ready in a few = minutes. If this is something that people are interested in then I can do a short = video about using Deadline for an After Effects render farm and put it = up on the ProVideo Coalition... -Chris=