[Michael Barrett]

Bartek,

Thanks for checking this out. Exporting the AVI out of After Effects CS3 totally solves the problem. Thanks for the info and response. There is still the basic problem that remains unresolved with Quicktime Pro 7.6 that should probably be reported to Apple, but I’m not sure where or how. If anyone knows where to send Quicktime Mac bugs in version 7.6 to, we should probably forward the links to this thread for fixes in future releases. Again, thanks for your help Bartek.

Michael

[Michael Barrett]

Thanks, Adam. I appreciate the feedback.

The c4d projects are usually rendering out Quicktime movies at 1920×1080 with volumetric & visible lighting. Some projects may take up to 3 or 4 days to render a 20 second animation with 12 clients involved. I would say this would fall under the “heavy” category when it comes to rendering.

If the cooling systems in these older G5s are suspect to begin with, it seems like Net Render Client may be causing too much stress on the processors. I’m worried that the G5s are chugging all night and the hard drive and logic board is getting too hot and possibly damaging these Motorola Macs from 2004.

I should try using the Activity Monitor to try and gauge what percent of the CPU is used and how much stress is being put on the G5 when it is rendering a frame using Net Render Client.

I do agree that if the Macs are functioning properly and the cooling system is working, that Net Render should not cause damage. It runs fine on the majority of the machines in the network. The fact is that a few of these older G5s were dripping green anti-freeze ooze with a sweet burning smell. They were sent out for repair and came back fixed.

The question I still have is why aren’t these machines failing while using After Effects and Final Cut Pro all day long and is the blame on Net Render Client running overnight justified?

Mike