Folks -
I just installed my Vegas+DVD upgrade, and have been tracking the developments in the forum. Network rendering seems like a godsend for me.
Here's the problem:
I have two moderately fast machines (with a total of 8, oncluding 2 Linux servers on the network). The main advantage is that these two boxes are connected via a gigabit network, and it seems to make sense to use them in a server/client configuration.
I typically use my 2.4G system for Vegas & DVDA. My 3.0G system is usally used for music production (Sonar 3.1 and Cubase 2.02 SX). Because the music system is faster, if I'm not doing any music, I may use this machine to speed up video renders, although it is not its primary function.
Otherwise, I run the video operations on th 2.4G machine. I installed Vegas+DVDA updates on both machines, and then installed the 5.0a updates on both.
I then went back and tried to install the render-only clients on these machines, thinking that whichever machine is acting as the primary site/server, the other could act as a render only engine.
Apparently not. When I go back to re-run the install disk, it tells me that a newer version of the Vegas softare is already installed (5.0a), and then forces me to exit the installation utility.
I do have one other moderately speedy machine (2.0G) on the network, but it only has 512M RAM an it's on a 100 megabit segment that I can't easily migrate to a gigabit segment.
How can I get the render-only clients installed on the first two machines?
I just installed my Vegas+DVD upgrade, and have been tracking the developments in the forum. Network rendering seems like a godsend for me.
Here's the problem:
I have two moderately fast machines (with a total of 8, oncluding 2 Linux servers on the network). The main advantage is that these two boxes are connected via a gigabit network, and it seems to make sense to use them in a server/client configuration.
I typically use my 2.4G system for Vegas & DVDA. My 3.0G system is usally used for music production (Sonar 3.1 and Cubase 2.02 SX). Because the music system is faster, if I'm not doing any music, I may use this machine to speed up video renders, although it is not its primary function.
Otherwise, I run the video operations on th 2.4G machine. I installed Vegas+DVDA updates on both machines, and then installed the 5.0a updates on both.
I then went back and tried to install the render-only clients on these machines, thinking that whichever machine is acting as the primary site/server, the other could act as a render only engine.
Apparently not. When I go back to re-run the install disk, it tells me that a newer version of the Vegas softare is already installed (5.0a), and then forces me to exit the installation utility.
I do have one other moderately speedy machine (2.0G) on the network, but it only has 512M RAM an it's on a 100 megabit segment that I can't easily migrate to a gigabit segment.
How can I get the render-only clients installed on the first two machines?