Return-Path: Received: from mail-da0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4861680 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:46:58 +0200 Received: by dadi14 with SMTP id i14so1979030dad.28 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:48:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:mime-version:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to:to :references:message-id:x-mailer:x-gm-message-state; bh=Y7asVuLnjA5pWq3aGGO0dWX01ZZbn80P15KXxMxrYZg=; b=PLzFOh9lD4I2uSHzH68n/MGU3H7M1LBf3b7PewgYwwFj+eAUa849Uce9VcCHR4hRf4 taKsV+NYjDgULBNINuSpdw6xaCIgeyldM6tcXYNC81qTz7eSvbfBvnCZ2UrkGBJA49Nm xGxccQ9UEiGJe1CpA3TzlnU2lC0vx57Zj+KlkfTI+L1U/vRCrL0MirmxA+SWv3nv4lnQ QjFHO82S8BMXXq+RGM54bTF5bHCp4i+tjFW1KCEMRgI+lMU5DEp/H+twefap3rJpApDu ah9otaSBoESprzTN3LBfgTGxwZCMT2UTC8ymedD/T7uUjRk9YPlqz5ZWQfjpdeF5/IKZ P45w== Received: by 10.68.217.67 with SMTP id ow3mr8116062pbc.26.1349218128820; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from [10.0.0.135] ([65.223.58.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id vu7sm1539767pbc.9.2012.10.02.15.48.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:48:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Spitler Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_89281519-1E35-438F-934D-A2228BBD6C89" Subject: Re: [AE] Network rendering Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:49:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: To: "After Effects Mail List" References: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnUv4UahT2+KxUb7+10VUr4HrqEe5Uag28HO65B29zBKOzFkqbWVwNTYkkHR6374UT3rxOi --Apple-Mail=_89281519-1E35-438F-934D-A2228BBD6C89 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 We use Smedge as our AE render farm and it works great (most of the = time). http://www.uberware.net/smedge/index.php I wrote a custom submit script that splits the render up into x number = of machines and renders QT files. Rendering image sequences is such a pain as the time to compile them = into a QT can be forever. Phil Phil Spitler | Creative Technologist | Bonfire Labs | t : = 415.394.8200 m : 415.571.3139 Website | Facebook | LinkedIn On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Drew Gilmore wrote: > After selecting 'collect files' you should just be able to select = "None (project only)" in the drop down menu of the dialog box that comes = up. That option only sends a copy of the .aep to the watch folder. As = long as the file paths in the .aep are recognizable by the farm = computers, no problem. >=20 > With a project with lots of source files, it still takes a long time = just to get to that dialog box - guess it's checking to make sure = everything's still there. >=20 > Drew > -- > Drew Gilmore > newtonscannon.com >=20 > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Elliot Steele wrote: >=20 > The problem I have is that for a particular project the source files = are in the 10s of GB & copying them every time I want to submit a = network job is madness. >=20 > Do I understand the process correctly? Is there a way of submitting = jobs without collecting all the source files? >=20 > Does anyone use an alternative method (maybe using a commercial = solution?) to network render in AE? >=20 --Apple-Mail=_89281519-1E35-438F-934D-A2228BBD6C89 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 We use Smedge as our AE render farm and it works great (most of the time).


I wrote a custom submit script that splits the render up into x number of machines and renders QT files.

Rendering image sequences is such a pain as the time to compile them into a QT can be forever.

Phil


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On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Drew Gilmore wrote:

After selecting 'collect files' you should just be able  to select "None (project only)" in the drop down menu of the dialog box that comes up. That option only sends a copy of the .aep to the watch folder. As long as the file paths in the .aep are recognizable by the farm computers, no problem.

With a project with lots of source files, it still takes a long time just to get to that dialog box - guess it's checking to make sure everything's still there.

Drew
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Drew Gilmore
newtonscannon.com

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Elliot Steele <elliot@ppdm.de> wrote:

The problem I have is that for a particular project the source files are in the 10s of GB & copying them every time I want to submit a network job is madness.

Do I understand the process correctly? Is there a way of submitting jobs without collecting all the source files?

Does anyone use an alternative method (maybe using a commercial solution?) to network render in AE?


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