netrendering hangs

Dan_B wrote on 2/11/2006, 2:34 PM
I know I did this once...
I have used netrendering to render in the background with my P4 machine. This allowed me to Vegas to keep on editing other clips. This was back around the end of Dec., 1st of Jan. I had to take a break for relatives funeral and installed a game on my editing machine (I know - dumb thing to do) but needed something to do occupy my mind. And now I can't get netrendering to run.
I'm guessing that the game install corrupted something - but I haven't found it yet.
Netrendering goes up to the point where you would see the progress of each clip in the small dialogue window, but then just sits there.
Any ideas out there???

Second question... I have seen some cartoonish appearing effects in a commerical, color depth down to a few colors and black lines that seperate the colors - think animation with a real life appearance. Does anyone know of this plugin?

Thanks in Advance!

Dan

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 2/11/2006, 11:24 PM
On the networking, make sure your remote render computers are set up and have the render agent running. Are they communicating with the client?

On your other question, I answered a similar question here: Create a Watercolor Effect.

Back when I answered that question, it took me less than five minutes to create that effect. By using my photo editing program, the range of possible effects is limitless. I too saw that commercial and it would be easy to do a very similar thing using this technique.
GaryKleiner wrote on 2/12/2006, 12:00 AM
If the problem is indeed software related, you can run the Restore Wizard (assuming Windows XP) and revert your system to an earlier state.

Gary
Dan_B wrote on 2/12/2006, 2:56 PM
No, I'm running W2K Pro sp4. I hate to be on the latest, geatest software craze as you spend all your time fixing your PC instead of using it. hehe and now I'm I'm trying to fix it.
I have yet to hear from Sony, being the weekend and such, but I suspect it broke the .NET stuff. From my point of view, the netrendering service doesn't appear to be passing a valid pointer to the actual renderer.
I plan on re-installing Vegas, or better yet, take the time in upgrade to 6.0c. I've been waiting for a break - I guess I have one now.

Dan