In my experience, the only Red Giant plugin that wasn't farm-friendly was Knoll Light Factory due to its GPU rendering. I've seen that error before.
Trapcode is a PITA as well due to its severe licensing scheme. However, the others seem to work just fine. I often ask artists to pre-bake knoll effects if it's not too much trouble for them. If it is trouble, then I make sure the job is sent to a portion of the farm that has supported GPU rendering. For instance, Mac minis and xserves do not render Knoll, but a Mac Pro will.
Best,
Vic
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Greg wrote:
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> Great. I will ask the ask them about that and report back what I'm told.
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> I actually installed the full versions of those plugs on my render nodes. When I try to render projects with those plugs, AE crashes hard. I get a popup window on each node, repeated over and over and over again:
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> The exception unknown software exception (0x40000015) occurred in the application at location 0x07cab44a
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> In a previous chat with red giant, they told me I had an unsupported video card in my render nodes and that's why it wasn't working...but I suspect that is not true. I didn't think aerender used the GPU at all, and GPU preview is disabled in the plugins anyway.
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> On 12/13/10 4:29 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote:
>> Greg wrote:
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>>> Hey Folks,
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>>> I am brand new to Rush, so apologies if this is a newbie question,
>>> though I poked around a bit and didn't see an answer.
>>>
>>> So here's the question:
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>>> Does anyone out there have experience using Render-only licenses of Red
>>> Giant plug-ins for AE CS4 (TrapCode, Knoll Light Factory, etc) with Rush.
>>>
>>> Do they work? I want to repurpose the licenses on workstations and use
>>> render only licenses on the nodes. But I before I buy, I'd like to know
>>> if its a'gonna work.
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>> Afraid I can't answer your question, but..
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>> I don't suppose they offer an eval you can test with?
>> If so, try it.
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>> In general, if it works from the command line with 'aerender',
>> and doesn't try to interact with the window manager by popping up
>> windows, it should work with Rush.
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>> You can probably also ask them if their tool has been tested
>> to work from the aerender command line for the purposes of
>> unattended rendering.
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