When sending renders through a network, it’s possible that the path to a same file looks different on different machines. Especially when using MacOS and WIndows machines on the same network. For example, let’s say Machine 1, is sharing the folder...
Yes. But render-only machines don’t need additional licenses. Render Boss uses After Effects to do the actual renders, so you do need to have After Effects installed in all the machines you want to use to render. However, per Adobe’s License terms (as of this...
With a render farm, you send all your files to an external service, they render it for you and then send those renders back to you. With Render Boss, you basically create your own render farm in your local network. You can mix and match older machines. As long as they...
No. As of 2020, Adobe’s licensing allows you to have unlimited render machines as Render-Only nodes. This means you can use After Effects to render without being signed into Adobe Creative Cloud. You only need to log into Adobe Creative Cloud to...
Video This video explains a lot of the concepts and instructions from this article: Introduction: The ability to spread renders among multiple machines is a really powerful way to speed up renders and/or to allow artists to keep working without having to stop for...
In this video we’ll go deeper into Multi-Machine renders, I’ll show you how to send renders to certain machines, but not others, pausing and resuming renders from different machines a few other tricks. (if you can’t see the video above, you can open...
