Net Rendering

[Tyler Olds]

Hey everybody how ya'll doin?
Just a question abouit net rendering on R3.1
Can you net render on more than one comp at a time? I know you can on other programs like Bryce and stuff. But whenever I try to click on more than one comp for net rendering, It doesnt let me. Am i doing something wrong? Please let me know.

Thanks

[Daishichimaru]

I've never done it personally, but the manuals go over it quite well.

[zorro]

The net rendering machines all have to be running NT or 2000. You start the net render server on each machine you wish to render with. You also have to have one of these machines run the net render manager as well. After you do this, goto max, choose net render and just highlight the servers you wish to render with.

[Tyler Olds]

Yeah i already did that,
My problem is that it only lets me click on one comp!!!
Idk why it does this I think I might just contact autodesk about it unless I get a responce in a day or 2.
Thanks

[Mikey]

Try making sure that the actual network is set up well, make sure that all yoru subnets are the same etc...on team 68 we had the same problem, we edited the subnets to make them all the same and we were able to do net rendering just fine.

[zorro]

In order to render on more than one system at once you have to set the output mode to image. I recommend tiff format so you have no quality loss. Once you do this you can output to all available servers. Make sure you have plenty of disk space though, the tiff's come to about 1 MB per frame. After the rendering is done you will have sequentially numbered frames which you can combine into a movie.

[Tyler Olds]

does anybody know where/ how to make .tiff or some kind of images into .avi? or some type of converter that i can download?
Thanks

[Mikey]

We use Adobe Premiere to turn image frames into an AVI file.

[Daishichimaru]

I've looked and can't find anything good that isn't warez but is free.. Sucks to have no money for the animators. :| I *think* you might be able to load sequentials into RAM player and have it feed out a stream, but the RAMplayer avi output sucks. Good if you have a few spare gigs of ram sitting around and just want a preview, I guess...

[Tyler Olds]

Hey i got a question,

How do you convert the images on adobe premier to .avi? could you please give me a process of doing this?

[Mikey]

I'll try and write a quick howto, however my knowledge is somewhat limited. If it's not detailed enough, please feel free to IM me: xschwinnx or e-mail me webmaster@wlcthecall.com I'll glady give all the advice I have =)

Well the first step is to take all of the still frames and connect them so to speak. You do this by going to your window where you import video clips (sorry that I don't know the proper name) and right clicking. Then choose import. Click once on the first frame and then at the bottom of the window you should be able to check a box that says 'numbered stills'. Once you do this it will link all of the files together as an actual animation clip.

With this animation clip you drag and drop it into your timeline for the animation. Once you have all the clips where you want them, transistions, sound, etc... Then it's time to export to video.

Go to file and choose export, from there you should be able to select the file type in a drop down box. Choose avi, and watch it go!

[Sunny Thaper]

Max has a built-in feature that is called Video Post in which you can stream camera shots together, add pictures, I belive you can add sound but I may be mistaken but anyway you can "Add Image Input" and click on "Files" which will take you to an open dialog and from there you find the first frame of your animation, click the "Sequence" checkbox and click open. That should import everything and now you can save the video post file as an avi.

[VanWEric]

Any idea on how to reverse time on the film? I tried to bomb some text and then view it in reverse, but the only way i found was to render it by frame list ie 20,19,18....3,2,1. THis is really annoying if you have more than 20 frames. the range feature refuses to have a start higher than its end. oh well. OR... can i make a bomb go in reverse? perhaps setting the strength to negative or some other odd gimick

[Zeinin]

do most of your effects in premire/final cut.

actually.

like, render out that clip as frames and then import it into premire and use that.. but all i gotta say is WHY DID YOU USE TEH BOMB? bombs are sooooo nasty looking..

[VanWEric]

Actually, the particle field that throws chunks off of a surface does look kinda neat. Any idea where i can find premire/final cut?