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Hello everyone,
I have talked my boss into setting up a second render machine for cinema.
Is it possible to simply render “Project A” on the render client machine, while simultaneously working on “Project B” on the host machine?
Can you dedicate a render client to a project in the render queue, or something like that?
Any help greatly appreciated…
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Simon

Hi Simon,

Please have a look here:
https://help.maxon.net/c4d/2023/en-us/Default.htm#html/52678.html#PLUGIN_CMD_300002136

Render Queue> Jobs> Team Render Machines

Here you can specify what is used for the team rendering.

So you allow which one is used and which one is not at all.

Is that working for you?

All the best

Thanks for your reply, yeah I had read through the help page, but I was (still am) a bit confused.
Here’s the workflow I imagine. Project “A” is ready to render. I set it to team render in picture viewer, and in the list, turn the local machine off. Project “A” then starts to render only on the 2nd machine, allowing me to work further on project “B”, using all the CPU/GPU from the host machine. So even though I see “A” rendering in the picture viewer, it doesn’t affect the performance of the computer while working on “B”. At the end of the work day, I can simply click the host machine on in the team render list, and it will start doing its share of the render from “A” again, and I can go home feeling confident the job will be finished by the morning….
I hope this is realistic….
Regards,
Simon

roughan.simon - 08 December 2022 10:09 AM

Thanks for your reply, yeah I had read through the help page, but I was (still am) a bit confused.
Here’s the workflow I imagine. Project “A” is ready to render. I set it to team render in picture viewer, and in the list, turn the local machine off. Project “A” then starts to render only on the 2nd machine, allowing me to work further on project “B”, using all the CPU/GPU from the host machine. So even though I see “A” rendering in the picture viewer, it doesn’t affect the performance of the computer while working on “B”. At the end of the work day, I can simply click the host machine on in the team render list, and it will start doing its share of the render from “A” again, and I can go home feeling confident the job will be finished by the morning….
I hope this is realistic….
Regards,
Simon

Yes, that works. Your machine can be the server and the other machine is the render slave. The server isn’t doing anything intensive so it won’t interrupt the performance of your machine.

Thanks for the reply, Simon.

If you like to dig a little bit deeper, you can move the whole process to a Render Server.
This increases the complexity, and for two machines, I’m not sure if you like to go there. So I started with the simplest way

https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/#html/53457.html?TocPath=Team Render|Team Render Server|_____0
https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/cinema_4d_team_render_part_07

All the best

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