Creating an After Effects Render Farm

[Kevin-Monahan]

Render compositions faster by using multiple computers on a network.

Would you like to use spare computers on your network to drastically speed up the process of rendering After Effects compositions? It's not only possible, it's a supported technology. See these articles for more information about how to render faster using multiple computers.

• Adobe: Automated rendering and network rendering
• Toolfarm: In Depth: Render Farms / Network Rendering / Distributed Rendering

[Mo Moolla]

Thanks for this info Kevin

Been personally using this method for a while now

On larger scale work we had to build custom 12-24 node hardware farms

Mo

[billsbayou]

The first question that pops into my mind is "Do I have to tell my co-workers I'm doing this with their machines?" 

I'll go back to lurking, now....

[jefubbudu]

...or you could make new software that exports 10x faster by actually using the GPU!