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I don't think it's 'common'. Perhaps there are many solo AE artists. who work on 1-3 machines only, and don't consider building their own farm.
Imaginary Forces uses a farm with great success. If you're using a fast server, I can't see completing any huge comps without some kind of farm, even if only using 3-4 machines. It's an awesome time saver (obviously), but it's so-o-o easy too. The obvious killers are plugin and font management.
Ko
On Apr 11, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Chris Zwar wrote:
On 12/04/2012, at 8:42 AM, Teddy Gage wrote:
D) I have never seen a mac render farm.
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
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