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After Effects Renderfarm work in progress – help me troubleshoot por favor?
So I’m just starting to *attempt* to set up a qmaster render farm using After Effects CS3 on a small test setup before we try anything large. The issue is – it took well over 20 hours (somewhere in the neighborhood of 23-24 hours) to do what would take After Effects on its’ own no more than 5 minutes. I was only rendering out 1000 frames of a comp which didn’t have any heavy effects on it as well.
My current setup:
2 Intel Mac Pro workstations with 8cores, 8gb ram, osx 10.5.5 as Service nodes.
1 G5 Mac Pro workstation running as the cluster controller.The issues I ran into: numerous Unix Command Error: 7, Unix Command Error: 9 errors. Out of the 1000 frames that were set to be rendered, 15 got rendered out as psd’s (frames #: 1,111,333,370,481,518,556,630,667,703,740,778,852,815,963). The controller was trying to access aerender on the controller itself even though I don’t have any rendering services setup to run on the controller.
Any help or ideas?
Thanks!
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Making Apple products control distributing rendering for Adobe products is probably a disaster before it starts. Have you tried the Qmaster forum at apple.com? some of the übergeeks have claimed success. But setting up render farm seems to be easy enough just using After Effects Render Engine. See the AE forum at adobe.com and search for the terms. There’s always a discussion going on about network rendering. You can ignore any comments you see from me over there. I just complain bout network rendering.
Hope you get it figured out and please remember to drop back by and tell us how you made out. Using Qmaster to run distributed rendering for AE would be a great thing to know how to do.
bogiesan
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