\section{Single File Rendering}%
\label{sec:single_file_rendering}
-Use the File pulldown and select Render to start the render dialog
+Use the \textit{File} pulldown and select Render to start the render dialog
(figure~\ref{fig:render}). Then choose the desired parameters.
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
amount of media to be processed without user intervention.
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{batch01.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{batch01.png}
\caption{Example of the Batch Render menu}
\label{fig:batch01}
\end{figure}
\end{description}
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{batch02.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{batch02.png}
\caption{Batch render with the 4 ghosted buttons on the right side
+ the Warning message below}
\label{fig:batch02}
(figure~\ref{fig:back-ren02}).
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{back-ren02.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{back-ren02.png}
\caption{Settings Background Rendering}
\label{fig:back-ren02}
\end{figure}
rates (figure~\ref{fig:back-ren}).
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{back-ren.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{back-ren.png}
\caption{Timeline with the top red bar}
\label{fig:back-ren}
\end{figure}
\item set the Total number of jobs to create;
\item click OK on the bottom of the Preferences window.
\end{itemize}
-\item On the client computers ($192.168.1.12$), start 5 background
- \CGG{} tasks via:
+\item Now we must join the nodes created to instances of \CGG{}. On the client computers ($192.168.1.12$), on the terminal, start 5 background \CGG{} tasks via:
\begin{lstlisting}[style=sh]
cd {path_to_cinelerra}
cin -d 401 cin -d 402
...
cin -d 405
\end{lstlisting}
-\item On the master node (localhost), start the 2 background \CGG{}
- tasks via:
+\item Similarly, on the terminal, we must join the local nodes created to instances of \CGG{}. On the master node (localhost), start the 2 background \CGG{} tasks via:
\begin{lstlisting}[style=sh]
cd {path_to_cinelerra}
cin -d 406
(figure~\ref{fig:farm}).
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{farm.png}
- \caption{Settings $\rightarrow$ Preferences, Performance tab, menu
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{farm.png}
+ \caption{Settings: Preferences: Performance tab, menu
to set up your Render Farm}
\label{fig:farm}
\end{figure}
node, start \CGG{} by clicking on the icon or by typing the
following command on the terminal screen:
\texttt{/{cinelerra\_path}/cin}.
- \item Use the file pulldown \texttt{Settings $\rightarrow$
+ \item Use the \textit{File} pulldown \texttt{Settings $\rightarrow$
Preferences}, the Performance tab, to set up your Render Farm
options in the Render Farm pane.
\item Check the \textit{Use render farm} option. By default, once
all of the cpus. This is much faster than the default automatic
threading capability. Since you don’t need to communicate with other
computers, you will not have to be concerned about TCP communication
-or shared disks/files. When you are going to be doing other work
+or shared disks/files; only localhost nodes. On the terminal, we will open many instances of \CGG{} by connecting them to the jobs created. The number of such jobs can be the total number of CPU threads or not. When you are going to be doing other work
simultaneously while rendering a large job, you will want to leave
-some of the cpus available for that. Be sure to set “Project SMP
-cpus” in the Settings→Preferences, Performance tab to your CPU
+some of the cpus available for that. Be sure to set \textit{Project SMP
+cpus} in the \texttt{Settings $\rightarrow$ Preferences, Performance} tab to your CPU
count.
\subsection{Troubleshooting Tips and Warnings}%
may want to share these files with the clients on a shared
filesystem. More information on index files configuration is
outlined in~\ref{sub:index_file_section}.
-\item Or, one of the convenient features of Cinelerra is the
+\item Or, one of the convenient features of \CGG{} is the
redirection of the path via \texttt{CIN\_CONFIG} as in:
\begin{lstlisting}[style=sh]
CIN_CONFIG="/<shared_file_pathname>/<filename_such_as_.bcast5>" cin
all parameter configurations.
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{yuv420.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{yuv420.png}
\caption{Render \& Video Preset menus displaying Pixel choices}
\label{fig:yuv420}
\end{figure}
used.\\ Example: \textit{cin\_sample\_fmt=s16}
\begin{figure}[htpb] \centering
- \includegraphics[width=0.55\linewidth]{audio.png}
+ \includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{audio.png}
\caption{Render menu showing where Samples is}
\label{fig:audio}
\end{figure}