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Vegas 10.0 works on Windows server 2008
After complaining that Vegas 10 killed network rendering, I decided to see if there was any extras they put into 10.
There is!
I loaded Vegas 10 64 bit onto my windows Server 2008 which normally I just use as a file server. And it runs! I have tried this with Vegas 9, 8, and 7 which did not run on the server.
The reason This is nice is that my server has 2 quad core xeon processors and is connected directly to my video RAID, so it screams.
Then I decided to push my luck and was pleased a second time.
I configured my server as an application server in addition to being a file server. Then I went to three computers on my network. I told each of them to bring up the Vegas 10 on the server, and they did. AT THE SAME TIME.
One of the computers was a tiny netbook running an atom processor, but it was screaming a render job because it was actually on the server. This is far more standard setup then the proprietary vegas network rendering becasue it only requires the licenses on the server machine, but multiple people can use it.
John
John Lenihan
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Could you please explain some more. I have a network here (but not in the server sense). How can I use another machine to render. I have both computers hooked up and running Vegas10. The drives are mapped and so forth, but I don’t know how to do what you are speaking of.
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Josh,
It won’t work with two peer computers like it did in the olden version 9 days where you could share loads with peer computers.
Windows server 2008 is an operating system (around $900) versus windows xp or windows 7 or windows vista.
The windows server operating system comes with the concept of client-server architecture. You put the application (vegas 10) on the server. Then you tell it to serve that application to computers you approve. The server then creates a small installation file.
You put the installation file on your client PC, and then just like loading an application on the client PC, you load this installation file. Then you have an item in the start menu that is remote vegas.
You click on it and it looks like it is starting vegas on your machine, but really starting it on the server machine and preseting the screen to you.
Typically client-server set ups like this are used in big companies and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
For smaller guys like us, you have to look into buying a hardware server from dell or HP, with windows server 2008 operating system (About $7000). Then set up the server and then install vegas. Unless you are pretty technical you will want to ask an IT person for help.
John Lenihan
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
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Thanks for the post. There must be some way to do things on the cheap like we used to using the new Vegas10. I will keep looking/trying.
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If you find it, PLEASE let us know.
My hope is for the GPU accelerator to start working better than the folks here have described like 1% improvement. Perhaps there is still a bug in it.
John
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicam.com
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