From: "Rob Birnholz" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:09:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: [AE] New AE script- Rendergarden
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Oops. Guess the discount was on cyber monday only. Sorry about that.=20

Rob Birnholz
Absolute Motion Graphics, Inc.
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Rob Birnholz
Absolute Motion Graphics, Inc.
www.absolutemotiongraphics.com
Office 407-830-8856
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>> On Nov 29, 2017, at 10:41 AM, Brendan Bolles <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wr=
ote:
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>> On Nov 29, 2017, at 7:24 AM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:
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>> Holy Retire AE 2014! Does this effectively solve the MP missing on post A=
E 2014 editions i.e. if you want to use it not as background but "render as f=
ast as possible"?
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> No, we're rendering in the background, using the command line, as you usua=
lly do with a render farm.  This will not speed up AE's interactivity at all=
.
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>> So has this been stress tested on mondo projects yet? I'm still rendering=
 the IMAX film in AE 2014 because it's the only way I can get it out.
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> You'll have to experiment.  With big frames like that, the resource under t=
he most demand will be memory, not CPU.  But if you have enough memory to ru=
n two processes, you could benefit.
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> For any comp there will be a point where running too many processes is slo=
wing things down rather than speeding them up.  At some point you've taken u=
p all your RAM, or doing too much I/O.  In our testing most projects do get a=
 boost from extra processes, sometimes as many as 12.  But yours is not most=
 projects, so maybe you'll have to stick with 1 process per computer.  Downl=
oad it and experiment.
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> But even with only one Gardener per computer, I think you'll like the work=
flow of RenderGarden where you queue up a series of tasks and then your comp=
uters grind away on them.  By watching your filesystem, you can get an idea o=
f the progress they're making.  Again, not as sophisticated as Tractor, but a=
 lot cheaper and it works out of the box.
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> Speaking of cheaper, you only need to buy RenderGarden for the machine you=
're working on.  You don't need to pay for the render nodes.
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> Brendan
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