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Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:36:12 GMT

Hi there I was wondering if Lightworks engine supports network rendering.

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:02:07 GMT

No. The LW implementation in AC 9 will utilize up to 2 processors on the host machine only.

Karl

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:52:04 GMT

To get round this I use as many Macs I can get my hands on in the office.

Then just open "As Read Only" the file I want the renderings from assuming you have cameras and or Publisher settings set up for each location.

If you are doing a movie tell it to render a range of frame numbers and join the finshed movies together using QuickTime Pro

eg.
Frames 1 to 100 on one Mac
Frames 101 to 200 on the nerxt etc.

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

TomWaltz — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:34:17 GMT

Karl wrote:
No. The LW implementation in AC 9 will utilize up to 2 processors on the host machine only.

Karl

That is one serious advantage of Cinema 4D over Lightworks for animation renderings: network rendering (especially when you have 50 G5 machines!!)

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:14:38 GMT

Which render program I could move all the materials, scenes etc from archicad 9 so that I can do a network render? Is maya good? 3d max?

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:01:08 GMT

Think not only about the program, think about the support - For example the render farms and their features, prices.

This farm is downright awesome,

http://www.renderking.com/

Mark

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

stefan — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:14:37 GMT

3ds max (and the cheaper VIZ) come with unlimited rendering licenses. PC-only (obviously).

I thought Lightwave allowed it too.

Cinema4D off course, but the XL has three licenses (IIRC). You can buy more in other bundles or as a seperate module.

Maybe it's time for a Dual Processor machine, with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors: maybe not 4x but it should be much faster.

Or investigate in an ART VPS PURE-card, for hardware-based rendering (provided you use 3ds max or Maya and utilize the Renderman-materials). --> Maybe this is not a simple solution.

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

fuzzytnth3 — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:32:36 GMT

While not in the same league as Maya etc Strata CX has an excellent render engine plus it does come with a separate renderer that can be installed on as many machines as you like and works on Apple Macs and PCs

Some examples here...

www.strata.com/

More info on RenderPro here...

Strata RenderPro

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:55:25 GMT

www.maxwellrender.com

Have a look

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

fuzzytnth3 — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:57:45 GMT

Stelios wrote:
www.maxwellrender.com

Have a look

www.maxwellrender.com/

I think you mean Maxwell not Waxwell sounds like some thing you use on your car

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:07:14 GMT

Evangelos wrote:
Which render program I could move all the materials, scenes etc from archicad 9 so that I can do a network render? Is maya good? 3d max?

All this talk about render farms ... how big of an image do you require? Since you were looking at just LightWorks in the original question, I assume you don't need caustics and all of the other fancy dancy effects of C4D/Maya/etc.

Have you looked at Artlantis R? Everything from ArchiCAD goes over and even though it is not multiprocessor aware in the current version - much less network render - it is so fast that it could be worth considering. 30 day free trial - www.artlantis.com

Be aware that using certain material aspects in LightWorks and certain light settings make it render very slowly. To speed things up, see Dwight's book, available in September:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=44557#44557

Karl

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:29:24 GMT

I rendering in ArtLandis 4.5.6 now a model 1.500.000 faces and i need
for an animation 10min ,225000min render (5.2months!!!!!!)

Re: Network Rendering for Lightworks?

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:04:26 GMT

Stelios wrote:
I rendering in ArtLandis 4.5.6 now a model 1.500.000 faces and i need
for an animation 10min ,225000min render (5.2months!!!!!!)

Of course you need a network render. I wouldn't suggest that Lord of the Rings be rendered in ArchiCAD or Artlantis either. Nobody denies that there are all kinds of things that require high end rendering power.

All of you guys are hijacking this thread which was a question by the user Evangelos. The question is does HIS model really require a network render?

Karl