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Render Engine advice sought
Hi everyone…
I’ve added the AE render engine, as well as 3rd party plugs, to three additional macs (a beefy G5 and a couple of imacs on my network), not counting my main workstation which I’ve read does not require the render engine.
So, a comp that took 26 minutes to render pre-engine install took 26.5 minutes AFTER I added the render engine to the other macs. I assume the problem is somewhere between the chair and the keyboard, so if someone could enlighten me as to the difference between sh*t and shinola I’d be greatly appreciative.
The workstation mac is a G5/dual 2.3ghz/OSX.4.6/4gb ram, AE 6.5 Pro; the other macs are a similar G5 and a couple of imacs running recent OSX’s.
My apologies if this has already been covered here but I couldn’t find anything.
Thanks!
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The idea of the AE render engine is that you render an image sequence, handing each individual from off to the next available computer in the render farm.
You’ll notice in the Render Settings in any given item in the Render Queue, there is a checkbox to “Skip Existing Files”.
So, if all your machines are rendering to the same folder, Machine A will render frame 000. Machine B looks in the folder and says “oh, I see frame 000 already, I’ll render frame 001”. Machine C does the same thing and then skips 000 and 001 and goes to frame 002.
Make sense?
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That makes sense & helps, thanks!
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