Distributed rendering an animation.

[Saulman]

I have looked through the manual and it says..........

"Rendering an animation sequence in distributed rendering is not supported. Use distributed rendering only for single frames."

If I render an animation to still images, to be pieced together afterwards, does that count as an animation sequence? Or is it just talking about .AVI files?

[RErender]

it means sequence too, if you think about it unless you have more farm machines than frames the render time would be about the same anyways since with bacburner you are distributing the whole animation.

[Saulman]

I think I understand that..... But please clarify...

With Vray, I can only render an animation sequence on one machine at a time. If I choose to use several machines, then I must render different frame sequences on each. ie. 1-100 on machine 1, 101-200 on machine 2, etc.

I apologise if this is a pretty basic question. It's just that I need answers fast and do not have a DR system to test on.

Thanks in advance.

[samuel_bubat]

I´ve rendered animations with DR in the past
(1.09 + max 5)
.. and it works very well.
I don´t really understand why it shouldn´t be used. Maybe it´s a bit
slower than single frame ?!
Well actually these were animations with very high settings, moving objects, and animated lights. Therefor it was just perfect. For flythroughs with
add or add incremental option it´s probabely useless !