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in the Options group, and then highlight the server that you want to render the job. 11 Click the Submit button. The Manager submits the job to the Servers, which begin rendering . At this point, you can load and submit additional scenes. When the first job is complete, the next job will automatically begin rendering on the Servers. How Network Rendering Works Rendering networks are sometimes called "render farms." In the software, one computer is set up as the network Manager. The Manager "farms out" or distributes the work to rendering Servers. You can also have the same computer function simultaneously as both Manager and Server, so computing cycles don't go to waste. Once rendering is under way, the Queue Monitor program lets you directly monitor and control the operation of the network rendering workload. The Queue Monitor allows you to edit job settings as well as to activate, deactivate, and reorder both jobs and servers involved in your render farm. Important: When rendering using a render farm, it is recommended to render with single-frame formats such as BMP or PNG. Movie file formats such as AVI output all frames into a single file which cannot be split between different servers to take advantage of network rendering. How Work Is Divided The software breaks up the task of network rendering among the rendering Servers, assigning one frame at a time to each Server. The completed output of the Servers accumulates in a common, shared directory. Rendered frame files can also be written to a local directory on each machine, if the same path defines the directory. Frame files are sequentially numbered, making them easy to assemble later. The Manager takes a number of different factors into account in determining how to assign frames and jobs, always striving for the most efficient usage of the rendering network. An idle rendering Server is automatically detected by the Manager and is considered for job or frame assignment. If a Server goes 6448 | Chapter 20 Rendering