Network Rendering is So Cool!

[John Rofrano]

Yea, many people don’t take advantage of network render but it’s a real time save for Vegas users that is under appreciated.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mark Davey]

Network rendering is indeed a very useful addition to the process. However with 3 pcs available to me I find that one (via WiFi) is never ‘called into action’.

Also (similar to my BSOD problem) network rendering would crash and never clear up after itself and therefore a restart of all machines is required.

In addition, if one machine stops, why should the whole process stop? Surely the dispatcher should reschedule that element to another machine?

One other issue: MPEGx will not be rendered across non-licensed machines (i.e. those render-only installs) this is a real nuisance! I can’t afford 3x licences

Does the new v10 have improvements in this area???

[John Lenihan]

Mark,

You are right. I have since run into the same problem with network rendering not encoding mpg files across network computers.

I will like you, be looking to see if 10 has anything to address this. I wonder if there would be a way to license just the encoder on the rendering machines.

John Lenihan

John Lenihan

LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicam.com

[Darin Martini]

hi there…seems like you guys know what youre talking about. I am running vegas 9 and am trying to setup network rendering. is there a step for step tutorial to do this. Youtube only has some british kid telling how cool it is but no actual guides…

[John Lenihan]

Before you start, you need to know that Vegas 10 drops network rendering.

Sony has an upgrade price of something like $130 until end of November. What I did was bought two upgrades at $130 and put one my server. Then remote log in to the server and run it like I used to run network rendering.

If you want to persue the vegas 9 network rendering, here is what you do.
1. Load a copy of vegas 9 on rendering PC and activate it using the same serial number as your main PC.
2. On your rendering PC start the program called network rendering, check the box that says allow network render, and tell it to automatically start at boot.
3. On your master PC, start the same network rendering program and tell it to automatically launch at startup.
4. On both pcs, mount the storage location with the same letter say y. So in this explanation, your video is on a storage server Y: some name
5. On the rendering program on the master PC, choose add a renderer, and select the server pc.
6. When you are on your master, when you are in Vegas, tell it to render and check the box that says use network computers. It will ask you which one, and select your server PC.

Which step are you getting stuck at?

John Lenihan

John Lenihan

LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicam.com

[Darin Martini]

Thanks John for the reply…I sat this morning and there seemed to be networking issues with the 2 machines…plus, I found that I had to turn off , “my best friend”, McAfee Firewall…the PC can now see eachother…Great. Just a final thought…do I setup the path to the files on all the machines?

Then just a quick random question. I shoot a video in HD, render it as PAL DVD Arc Stream (coz I am in South Africa)…When I play the DVD on my old TV the pic is great..when I play it on a plasma screen…it sucks…Is it a settings? Basically, the pic from the DVD on the plasma is not as crisp and clear…how can I sort this out.

Thanks a ton