Network rendering and 3rd-party plugins

Tech Diver wrote on 11/6/2006, 7:49 AM

I have not made use of network rendering yet, but plan to do so shortly. Can someone tell me what happens when clips have a non-Vegas effect applied to them and the other rendering machines do not have that 3rd-party plugin installed? In my case, I am using Boris Red and would be spending lots of money if I have to buy additional licenses for the other machines. Boris FX only permits one installation per license.

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Tech Diver wrote on 11/7/2006, 5:19 PM

Bump.

Is there anyone out there that uses third-party plugins with network rendering?

ReneH wrote on 11/7/2006, 7:54 PM

With V6, you had to install the third party plug ins on all the machines for network rendering. It may still be the case for the new version.

douglas_clark wrote on 11/8/2006, 2:38 AM

You need to install all the plugins that the render will require...ie all that you have used in the project...on each renderer. The Sony plugins are naturally all installed with Vegas. In version 6, network rendering would not work for MainConcept MPEG2 (DVD) encoding, because the license is only good for one machine, and does not include render workstations. I haven't tried it in v7. However, you can go to the other machine, and start the MPEG2 render manually without problems.

The easiest way to set up network rendering is to put your project and media files on one or more shared drives, which have the same drive letter(s) on all your machines. Then you don't have to think about transposing paths etc.

Tech Diver wrote on 11/8/2006, 6:37 AM

MainConcept not able to render across the network in V6? If so, what good is network rendering? Although I render in many formats during the life of a project, I ultimately wind up creating DVDs as my final medium.

DavidMcKnight wrote on 11/8/2006, 12:20 PM

I know you can't split the project across multiple render clients for dvd encoding, but I -think- you can assign a project to a render client in full - ie, the project you have in front of you gets sent to render node X for dvd encoding, and then you go about your way editing something else. One project per render node, in this case. Again, not 100% sure on that but I think that's right.