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DavidMcKnight wrote on 11/17/2005, 10:48 AM
Best thing to do is check the built in help first for an overview. Then, search this forum since the people who are best qualified to answer these questions already have. That should get you enough information to at least get you started if not completely solve your problem. That's the real beauty of this forum.

Start here -

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=349928

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=353268

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=309557

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=331635

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=294770

Hope that helps,
David

johnmeyer wrote on 11/17/2005, 8:55 PM
Make sure you really need this feature before you bother with the considerable hassle of setting it up. This will NOT help you reduce MPEG encoding time. Also, if you have only moderate rendering, and you have a really long project (e.g., 90 minutes long), the time it takes to move 20GB files around the network and then back to the main machine, and the time it takes to stitch them all back together often negates the time saving.

Where network rendering really shines -- and where it is almost indispensable -- is for relatively short project (perhaps 10-20 minutes) where you are doing a TON of compute-intensive rendering, especially 3D, or where you use lots of compute-intensive fX.

If it takes you ten hours to render ten minutes of video, then you definitely should take the time to set up and use network rendering.