After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm

After Effects CC Harnasses Your Network As A Render Farm:
If you’ve been working on your own project and your effects are taking forever to render on your computer. You either have to go away for lunch or coffee while it renders out your sequence, or invest in a pricy render farm rentals when going to your final render.  But Adobe has created a way for independent filmmakers to harness their networks and turn them into their own custom render farm thanks to Adobe After Effects Network Rendering.

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Codex Inrtroduces Codex Backbone and Production Server

Codex Inrtroduces Codex Backbone and Production Server by PVC News Staff:
The Codex Backbone is a hybrid system with productions taking advantage of local appliances – Codex Production Server - along with the distributed hardware of the Cloud through the Codex Backbone. Based on the proven technology of the Codex Vault, the Codex Production Server is a repository for all digital files and metadata generated during principal photography.

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Multi-machine rendering in Adobe After Effects

Multi-machine rendering in Adobe After Effects - video tutorial by James Whiffin! - motionVFX Blog:
James Whiffin is a freelance motion designer who lives in Australia and he spends most of his time creating visual effects and motion graphics for his clients and personal projects. He works in After Effects and Nuke for compositing and uses Maya and Mental Ray for 3D. He also shares his knowledge in many video tutorials and here's one of them. In this video he explains in detail how to setup a network for rendering in After Effects on multiple machines and shares some tips on how you can speed-up this process. Some cool and useful stuff!

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What is a Render Farm?

What is a Render Farm? | wolfcrow:
Rendering is the art of ‘drawing’ an image, which means you’re creating new pixels. If you had one pixel which is red in color, and you applied a filter to make it green, when you export it to a finished pixel, the software will have to recreate a green pixel. This is called rendering.

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Smart Rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro

Smart Rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro | Adobe, Video:
This article is from the new website — Creative Cloud User The latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC adds some real power under the hood. When it comes to export your final project, you can often take advantage of Smart Rendering. To use this feature is pretty simple.

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HELMER Renderfarm

HELMER Renderfarm | First Image:
So we have started to buy the Ikea Helmer cabinet first to make all the planning for the Renderfarm. After a bit measuring here and there, it was clear that it can be a really compact solution if you need renderpower at your desktop. So we give it a try.

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4 Things You May Not Know About the After Effects Render Queue

Toolfarm.com :: Tips: 4 Things You May Not Know About the After Effects Render Queue/ Adam Miller:
Cut down on your render time using these simple tricks right in the Render Queue! Covers: Post Render Action, Drag Comps to Adobe Media Encoder, Render Region of Interest and Image Sequence Rendering.

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Batch Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder

Batch Encoding with Adobe Media Encoder:
Harness Adobe Media Encoder's background encoding feature to speed up your post-production workflow! In this post, we'll discuss how to get your Premiere and After Effects projects into Encoder, as well as how to setup watch folders. A must read for Adobe users.

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Shotgun Software Releases Shotgun v. 4.0 at SIGGRAPH 2012

Shotgun Software Releases Shotgun v. 4.0 at SIGGRAPH 2012: Shotgun Software will demonstrate its new Shotgun 4.0 at SIGGRAPH this week in Los Angeles, as well as an upgrade to the pre-release version of Revolver, currently in private beta. Shotgun is a web-based production tracking platform for the visual effects and animation industry. Revolver provides an all-in-one review and approval toolset.

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Premiere Pro CS6 render & export times

Premiere Pro CS6 render & export times:
A lot of numbers flying around in the interwebs regarding the power of CUDA in Premiere Pro. Mostly they are about how much layers of blur or how many “tracks” of HD video can be played in realtime without dropped frames without rendering and stuff like that. All that is very nice and indeed the combination CUDA & Premiere Pro  is very powerful. In Fact its the most impressive native codec / footage performance I have seen and experienced so far – if you have a powerful machine.

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codecs and the render engine in After Effects CS6

codecs and the render engine in After Effects CS6:
After Effects CS6 includes a significant change from After Effects CS5.5 regarding the ability to use network rendering without activation of render-only instances of the application, known as render engines.

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Render Rocket

Render Rocket:
The efficiency of your 3D projects will blast off with Render Rocket, your render farm in the Cloud.

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Monitor Your Video Renders Remotely with Digieffects RenderMon

Monitor Your Video Renders Remotely with Digieffects RenderMon:
RenderMon (currently in beta) is an innovative new web-based application that enables digital media artists to remotely monitor and manage the video rendering process, as well as securely upload, view and share the rendered video from Vimeo.

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