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| Hey Elliot Disregard my last post with the script link. As I said I made it a long time ago and looking over it it is was made for network rendering multiple quicktimes. You can do a network render on ae with multiple machines without copying all the media using the method I said in my original post with the additional step of selecting network rendeer from the render settings no script necesary...the rub is you need a licenced version of ae on each node Mike cardeiro Sent from my Verizon Wireless Smartphone Elliot Steele <elliot@ppdm.de> wrote: >Evening (or morning for some I guess!) chaps & chapesses, > >I¹ve got a small render farm which I have been using for 3dsmax (using the >standard Backburner) & would like to use the farm to render some quite long >renders (10k frames, taking 24hrs on a 12-Core Mac Pro). > >The way my 3dsmax renders work is that I set up the render in max, submit >the job to Backburner & that¹s it. The process takes as long as it takes to >save the file & to send it off (not long!). >The individual render nodes open the submitted file & pull any referenced >externally referenced scenes (xrefs) or maps from their original locations. > >The way I understand the AE way of network rendering is that I must first >collect the project & all source files into the ³watch² folder & then the >render nodes will do their stuff. >If this is correct, why must all the source files be ³collected²? Are the >render nodes unable for some reason to read them from their original >locations? >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? > >Many thanks for any thoughts! > >Elliot Steele > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >digitalMEDIA Technik GmbH > >Am Berg 20 >91809 Wellheim > >tel.: 08427 985011 >fax: 08427 985012 >handy: 0172 8410163 > >E-Mail: elliot.steele@digitalmediatechnik.de > >HRB 5012, Amtsgericht Ingolstadt >Geschäftsführer Elliot Steele >USt-Nr: 124/124/40585 > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > |
