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■ All network communications and protocols are installed and operating correctly. ■ The computers run Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, or NT 4.0. Limitations of other operating systems could cause network rendering to be unreliable. ■ All of the computers have names that start with letters. Machine names that start with a number will fail. ■ You haven't previous attempted network rendering. If you have already attempted network rendering and want to return to the original state, delete everything in the \Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network folder except nrres.dat. ■ Manager and Server have not been installed as services. Summary of Procedures ■ Procedure 1 - Use this procedure for configuring a single system to render jobs to itself; in other words, to perform batch rendering that is managed by Backburner. ■ Procedure 2 - Use this procedure for configuring a Backburner Manager system to render to one or more Backburner Server systems. The Manager system will not be involved in the rendering tasks. ■ Procedure 3 - Use this procedure for configuring the Backburner Manager and Backburner Server systems to render tasks together. Special Consideration for Procedures 2 and 3 To use a render farm, you must output a frame sequence in a still-image file format; for example, a series of BMP files. You cannot render animated file formats such as AVI or MOV to multiple systems. You must render animated files to a single system. When rendering to an animated file format, the Use All Servers check box in the Network Job Assignment dialog is unavailable. Basic Procedure 1: Single-System Network Rendering This procedure describes usage of network rendering on a single computer. The main advantage to this method over standard rendering is that you can 6436 | Chapter 20 Rendering