From: Greg <greg@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: After Effects CS4 + Render Only License for Red Giant Plugs +Rush
   Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:06:50 -0800
Msg# 1979
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Great.  I will ask the ask them about that and report back what I'm told.

I actually installed the full versions of those plugs on my render nodes. When I try to render projects with those plugs, AE crashes hard. I get a popup window on each node, repeated over and over and over again:

The exception unknown software exception (0x40000015) occurred in the application at location 0x07cab44a

In a previous chat with red giant, they told me I had an unsupported video card in my render nodes and that's why it wasn't working...but I suspect that is not true. I didn't think aerender used the GPU at all, and GPU preview is disabled in the plugins anyway.



On 12/13/10 4:29 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote:
Greg wrote:
[posted to rush.general]

Hey Folks,

I am brand new to Rush, so apologies if this is a newbie question,
though I poked around a bit and didn't see an answer.

So here's the question:

Does anyone out there have experience using Render-only licenses of Red
Giant plug-ins for AE CS4 (TrapCode, Knoll Light Factory, etc) with Rush.

Do they work?  I want to repurpose the licenses on workstations and use
render only licenses on the nodes. But I before I buy, I'd like to know
if its a'gonna work.

     Afraid I can't answer your question, but..

     I don't suppose they offer an eval you can test with?
     If so, try it.

     In general, if it works from the command line with 'aerender',
     and doesn't try to interact with the window manager by popping up
     windows, it should work with Rush.

     You can probably also ask them if their tool has been tested
     to work from the aerender command line for the purposes of
     unattended rendering.




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