Network Rendering Setup

jkrepner wrote on 1/30/2006, 6:39 AM
Can someone point me in the right direction? As far as I can tell, the Vegas manual and online help files only tell me how to use network rendering and not how to set it up.

I have my main workstation that has the media files and will be used as the final location for the stitched file. I then have two other machines that are networked and visible to my workstation. Do I just install the full Vegas 6 on each machine? I seem to remember something about just installing two render nodes, rather than the entire app.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/30/2006, 8:43 AM
You do install the full version on each PC (you are correct - the first version you were supposed to install a special NR client - rather than the full software - but they changed that after feedback from users).

In my help file there is a section called "Network Rendering: Setting up Your Computers" - which was the first link when I searched for "network rendering"
jkrepner wrote on 1/30/2006, 11:07 AM
(me dumb)

Thanks... I swear I typed that into the search box.

Jeff
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/30/2006, 12:08 PM
Jeff..... definitely nothing dumb implied here.... the help file can be a rather interesting beast to navigate.
jkrepner wrote on 1/30/2006, 12:50 PM
Ha ha. Thanks again. Should I be planning on installing identical codecs and fonts on each system? During my searching on the forums, I read a few posts were that seemed to be a necessary step.
-Jeff

Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/30/2006, 2:10 PM
Should I be planning on installing identical codecs and fonts on each system

absolutely...indeed the systems need to be identical at least as far as fonts/codecs/plug-ins etc.

I've had weird problems where I noticed the lower-third text changing font depending on which render node handled each segment (found I had the same font... but slightly different versions of them on each pc).

Also... had issues where quicktime was at a different version on my PC's and this resulted in some segments of my video coming out black (this was when I had BMP files on the time-line).

Also... of course you need the same plugins (such as Noise Reduction 2 / Boris Graffiti etc etc).

It's fun.
Laurence wrote on 1/30/2006, 3:13 PM
I have read that this works for avi files only. Mpeg files as needed for a DVD or M2T files needed to copy HDV back to tape need to both encode and render, and only the rendering can be handed off to another machine. The handing of encoded files back and forth over a network keeps this from being any more efficient than simply doing it all on one machine.