Using Boris Graffiti with Network Rendering.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/11/2005, 5:47 AM
So... I have finally setup network rendering on four PC's (I have 2 copies of V5).... and it finally hit me that I cannot use the network rendering feature if I am using Graffiti in my projecrs (or at least not without installing it on all my render machines).

Does anyone know if there is any issue with Graffiti (licensing / technical) with doing this? Is anyone doing this already?

I could of course ask Boris this question... but thought if someone else is doing this already... you may save me the phone call!

Thanks

-Liam

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/11/2005, 3:50 PM
This is not <really> a bump. I think the fact that no-one has replied is likely due to two things... maybe not that many of us are using Boris/Graffiti... and (more likely) even fewer of those are using Network Rendering.

Obviously my reason for posting this is that I am now starting to utilize network rendering more now (as I now have 4 couputers to work with... I think I'll have a better result than when I had fewer and slower machines).

I'm thinking about pulling together some more in-depth report on how I find Network Rendering in a few weeks.

Bearing in mind I had it setup before.. It was a little more painful this time than I had thought it would be. I realized in the end I was making far too many assumptions about the way Network Rendering works.. and in the process actually making it more complicated than it really was. I think what is needed is some <real world> examples of how to setup Network Rendering telling you what you need to do on every machine to get it working.

I'm now very happily setting up rendering across 4 machines and all is going pretty sweet (although I have not yet tried to tackle the issue with Graffiti).
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 1/11/2005, 4:55 PM
"I'm thinking about pulling together some more in-depth report on how I find Network Rendering in a few weeks. "

I will be anxious to see this as I am planning on setting up a network render node on a local network that has about 3-4 computers so that if I have a major 3D project, I will be able to use it to get done more quickly.

Dave
Grazie wrote on 1/11/2005, 11:31 PM
You can help me on BG3 - Up to now I'm overwhelmed with apathy for this product. It has an interface that - IMHO - is closer to a piece of Cheddar than anything I know for the price I paid for it. I can't sync music or speeech within that which I've created in Vegas. Understanding how the Preiview is well beyond me . .. for others it appears as easy as slicing bread. For this numbnutz, it remains a total mystery.

However . . It has very VERY Powerful tools, and ones which I would dearly love to access, manipulate, adjust, improve, Preview and link happily with Vegas. Liam, I haven't even thought of network rendering V5 - least of all BG3 - so that is why I haven't responded. BUT, with my ongoing frustration with it, so near and yet so far experiences, each time I see a mention of BG3 I get a kinda shiver down my back and remember the VegHEads here wagging their collective fingers at me, "Grazie! Don't do it!" . . well I did buy it, it WAS on offer it was the drink, the flashing lights . . whatever . . .I bought it.

I need a kind person here in London to assist me understand:

1/- How it works?

2/- How it previews in synch with the video?

3/- How I can manipulate this against the video?

4/- How I can best make use of the handshale with Vegas?

Liam, sorry for the diversion on this but it really is sticking in my craw (?) - You got my email on Acid Pro?

Grazie
Liam_Vegas wrote on 1/12/2005, 1:11 AM
questions 2 and 3.. are simple. It just doesn't work that way. So far I have not used the product in a way that I needed to sync so precisely with the video. I wished that it did integrate more fully than it does.

I must admit to a similar level of frustration when I purchased it for it's ability to work as a plugin in Vegas - and I expected that it would work in a much more integrated way than it does.

In any case I have become pretty proficient with it...So... I guess that doesn't help you all that much!

I now setup my own presents and can quickly produce a nice result with a common set of preset lower thirds for my projects. In the end the style of the titles is much better than what I can produce in Vegas alone.
DelCallo wrote on 4/16/2005, 7:10 AM
Liam:
Please point me to a LTD specific set of instructions on how to make this product go. I'm as frustrated as Grazie on this one.
Caruso
Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/16/2005, 7:45 AM
Caruso...

I'm using the full version - not LTD... so your workflow would be entirely different than mine. In the full version you can add the Grffiti effects as an FX direct on the timeline. On the LTD version you use their stand-alone keyframer to build and then render the text effects you want outside of Vegas.

I don't use Graffiti in this way... so I can't help you any further. Sorry!