Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1204

PROBLEM: I cannot assign more than one server to a job in the Network Job Assignment dialog. If the output of a network-rendering job is an AVI or MOV file, or a single user device, the job can be assigned to a single server only. The Network Job Assignment dialog changes, depending on the file output type of a job. For example, if you are network rendering to one of the file formats above, the All and None buttons do not appear and the dialog title bar contains the word "Single." If a job that has an AVI or MOV file output type is stopped for any reason (to deactivate it, or because a machine goes down), re-rendering the file restarts at the first frame. Frames cannot be appended later to these file types. SUGGESTION To take advantage of the distributed power of network rendering we suggest you first render to a series of Targa files. Then use the Targa files as either an animated background in an empty 3ds Max scene, or as an image input event in Video Post and render the sequence out to the desired output type (for example, AVI). PROBLEM:When I click the Render button on the Render Setup dialog, I get an error dialog stating: Error Retrieving Configuration File This error usually is the result of a corrupt installation of the Backburner applications which caused an errant registry setting. SUGGESTION Try reinstalling the Backburner components of the program or manually edit the system registry. Editing the registry: 1 Choose Start > Run. 2 Enter RegEdit and click OK 3 Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Autodesk > Backburner > 2008.1 4 Check the CfgPath entry. Make sure the value is set to c:\Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\nrapi.conf. Troubleshooting Guide | 6459