From: "richard bogusz" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: RE: [AE] New AE script- Rendergarden
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:14:06 -0800
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Hey Brendan,

I'm kicking the tires on RenderGarden on Windows 10 with the trail, I have a
quick question.

When a render completes, the command windows remain open. Is there a way to
config RenderGarden to auto close the command prompt when the process
completes?

Thanks for the hard work and excellent addition to ae!

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-Rik Bogusz

MotionGraphics/VFX

Rik@RikBogusz.net

818.319.5400

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Subject: Re: [AE] New AE script- Rendergarden

On Nov 29, 2017, at 7:24 AM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

> Holy Retire AE 2014! Does this effectively solve the MP missing on post AE
2014 editions i.e. if you want to use it not as background but "render as
fast as possible"?


No, we're rendering in the background, using the command line, as you
usually do with a render farm.  This will not speed up AE's interactivity at
all.


> 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.


You'll have to experiment.  With big frames like that, the resource under
the most demand will be memory, not CPU.  But if you have enough memory to
run two processes, you could benefit.

For any comp there will be a point where running too many processes is
slowing things down rather than speeding them up.  At some point you've
taken up 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.  Download it and experiment.

But even with only one Gardener per computer, I think you'll like the
workflow of RenderGarden where you queue up a series of tasks and then your
computers grind away on them.  By watching your filesystem, you can get an
idea of the progress they're making.  Again, not as sophisticated as
Tractor, but a lot cheaper and it works out of the box.

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.


Brendan


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