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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
See if you can load backburner on all the computers that can run it in your school. (Not fast, just run) As long as the hubs/routers/switches don't throw away the packets, depending on the size of your school, you could get a lot of computers, or a few. Lets pretend your animation is 1050 frames (30 second animation, 5 second credits), and you can use 60 total computers, then each computer will only have to render 17.5 frames. Lets say it takes 10 mins to render one frame, that's only 2.92 hours for the whole render, the time would be higher in practice, but still better than one computer, (with those speeds in this hypothetical situation, that'd take over a week of solid processing) and they don't have to be top-of-the-line workstations. (It's essentially the same idea as cluster supercomputing) That should solve render woes, but you need to make sure that your backburner server can handle it. Look at it this way, one nice computer, with Windows 2000/3 server (can be bought at educational discount, or often the school district will already have a volume license) and good render times, instead of using someone's gamer and agonizing for several days.
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All right that would work but what about over the summer? Most schools frown about using their computers during the summer. And the tech department at my is very strict about what the computers do. In order for back burner to work the computers have to be peer to peer networked and thats not how their networked at my school.
Many people are missing my point here let me say this as clear as I can.
BACK BURNER IS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS RENDERING PROCEEDER!!!
when the given frames are done rendering at Animators B's house. Animator B will send the short video segment to Animators A. Then Animator A will have to piece together all the short video segments in using some other program.
Also some of the animators don't have enough money to get more computers and have a crappy computer. (no offense to anybody) I thought this would be a way for us all to help those in need by lending our computers. thus producing a large "network" of rendering farms. This whole process is to bring the animators together and learn from each other. I know that someone on another forum was complaining about re rendering 1000 frames and he wouldn't be able to use his computer for the next week or so. This is a way for us with good computers to help him out.
So it would be Animators A's job to tell what frames and what video format the render has to be in. so then all Animator B would have to do is open the file, set the frames in video post, set the file format and size, and click render. Then animator B would go to sleep for the night or go to work for the day. Animator B wouldn't be using his computer anyway so it shouldn't be that much of a problem for him.