Network Rendering for Lightworks?

[Anonymous]

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

[Karl Ottenstein]

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

Karl

[fuzzytnth3]

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.

[TomWaltz]

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!!)

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[stefan]

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.

[fuzzytnth3]

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

[Anonymous]

www.maxwellrender.com

Have a look

[fuzzytnth3]

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