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CS4 Network Rendering — missing CC plugs?
I just installed AECS4 across a grid, and found a sweet plug in that breaks render queue items into multiple quicktimes for outputting. Great! Sequences can get messy — I’d rather have 10 pieces than 1000 pieces when it comes to certain projects and clients. Especially for some longer comps.
EIther way, whats up with the CC suite not installing? I use a lot of those effects, but why would adobe include it in the full version, but cripple you with the render only engine? Has anyone found a workaround?
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Winds up if you copy your effects folder from your plug ins folder from an activated box to the render drones it works (in OS X atleast). I’m curious if there is a better — less hacksaw — method to do this.
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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Hmm, if you copy CycoreFX to your render boxes we do hope that you also purchase a RO-license from us (see our web site for more info). A RO-license is not included with bundled version.
/Nils
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Gosh, didn’t know that Nills. I’ll pull them down and talk to the CFO about purchasing the network seats, which aren’t that pricey (490$ — yes?) for unlimited seats. But let me ask you this! If I buy one unlimited seat, can I install it at multiple locations? Or is it a per site license? Software stuff gets so confusing.
Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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Seems to me a bit off that a plugin you get included with AE CS4 doesn’t let you use it to it’s full potential with the s/ware it comes included with. I mean if AE has the option to render over several machines as standard then anything that ships with it as standard should work too…no?
Not trying to be tight or anything here (I’m always telling friends to pay for what they’re using!) but it just seems a bit incomplete as a package otherwise. I’ve had a similar problem with CC plugins not working on our Intel machines with AE7 Pro (which we still need to use for various reasons) You need to purchase a patch/update to get the included plugins to work!
AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.3 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Decklink SP / SONY PVM-20M4E/ Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe / United Digital RAID
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Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Intel Core2Quad Q6600 / 2GB RAM / NVidia Quadro570 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 320GB boot/800GB RAID-0 -
No worries Nicholas. Don’t pull them down yet, speak to your CFO first. Yes $490 for unlimited seats per site/location. If you have many sites/locations I’m sure we can work something out that will be attractive. Yes software can sometime get confusing 😉
/Nils
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It has to do with how it was when the contract was written. At that time there were no unlimited render engines included with AE and CCfx was bundled with a single user license. As this has changed with AE, unlimited render engines, the CCfx deal was the same and we were allowed to sell additional RO licenses. We made the decision to keep the price low and attractive instead of being greedy, $490 US isn’t that much for unlimited CPUs.
The issue with AE7, MacIntel, CFM plug-ins and Rosetta was completely out of our hands, only Apple and Adobe could have solved that issue and we have no rights to ship any upgrades to the CCfx according to our contract, sorry.
/Nils
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Hi Nils,
Thanks for explaining…sorry if my post came across a bit harsh. All sounds fair enough!
We don’t use render machines anyway – just skip frames and render on all workstations at once overnight. 8-core machines have meant we don’t need to run separate render machines just yet. There will no doubt be a bigger job around the corner needed that bit faster and we’ll need to buy more machines though I’m sure…Better try push the move to CS4 soon I guess!
AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.3 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Decklink SP / SONY PVM-20M4E/ Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe / United Digital RAID
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Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Intel Core2Quad Q6600 / 2GB RAM / NVidia Quadro570 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 320GB boot/800GB RAID-0 -
No problems Jimmy. I didn’t think it was harsh, things tend to get complicated out there and it’s easy to understand that will cause some frustration… 😉
/Nils
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