| 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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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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