From: "Brendan Bolles" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] New AE script- Rendergarden
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:05:13 -0800
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On Nov 29, 2017, at 3:04 AM, J Bills wrote:

> Just a quick question and would probably be answered by just giving it =
a spin, buuuut - a couple people have mentioned this fits between a =
single workstation and a farm.  It seems brilliant and I badly want the =
boosted render times, but if you have a farm, why would you need this?


If you have a farm, then you probably don't need RenderGarden.  This is =
for people who don't have a farm.  RenderGarden is nowhere as advanced =
as render farm software like Tractor, but it's a lot easier to set up =
and a lot cheaper.

By running multiple processes simultaneously, RenderGarden will speed =
things up for any output file format.  But while people rendering this =
way usually need to stick to image sequences, RenderGarden will let you =
render out movie segments that are then combined into a full-length =
movie by FFmpeg without re-encoding.

Yes, like any render farm you need all your machines to have the same =
plug-ins and fonts.

While we don't officially support earlier versions of AE, I have used =
RenderGarden on CS6.  Run the installer, and then copy the files to =
whatever version you want to use.  It'll probably work.


Brendan