Render Farms?

[The Black Circl]

Does a network Render Farm work for file export with avid???

trying to export files with these properties: Quicktime; avid mpeg2 50mbit codec; hdv....

Someone let me know so I can please stop wasting my life.......

It is taking about a half hour to export 1 minute of footage and I have 1 hour..........................................................................................

[The Black Circl]

Since no one else either can or wants to answer my question, ill do it myself...

No - Avid can not utilize the advantages of render farming during file export. Since the file would first have to be exported in order to farm it...

If someone can figure out how to farm processing power - that would work.

But as far as farming video - its pretty much out. The time it takes to send the video to be rendered out to farm offsets the time saved in processing.

The best way to do this that I have found (without purchasing Avids ISIS Super Computer (which cost the price of your immortal soul)) is to export as an M2T file (assuming its high def.) And then encode it in a different program. Supposedly transcoding the video into a different HD format and then exporting as a QT reference is faster. Well the transcoding processes took almost as long as exporting an MOV. Avid may be able network render transcoding (this statement is based solely on my observation of avids behavior,) however the cables and cards would run about $600 per each tower connected to the system, which wood be quite a God damn expensive thing to test.

[SouthSIDE Glen]

You do realize this is a home audio forum and not an Avid/BDV post production forum, right?

As far as "farming processing power", that's what a rendering farm *is*. You could use Avid with a rendering farm *if Avid itself were running on the farm*. But if it's a seperate system, then yes, you have to export the file first.

And the manufacturers are working on "farming processing power" inside the box in the form of multi-core processors. But the software has to be written to support multi-core processing to take advantage of it. Whether Avid - a staunch and old-school Apple-only supporter - writes their stuff to take advantage of the latest Intel or AMD technology, I don't know.

You really need to take this stuff to a DV or Avid-specific forum, BC. You didn't get any answers here because you were asking the wrong people in the wrong place.

G.