Re: Batch processing Shake scripts - help needed

I'd fire up QMaster. It can be a right pain to get working on a network but on a single machine it seems to install and work fine. I used this to render 4 shots I was working on for a feature film a couple of years back, just used to set them to batch with qmaster on my macbook pro overnight while I was at home, and in the morning i'd have all 4 done and dusted (and they were fairly full on shots).

The pluses about running qmaster for rendering shake scripts on a single machine are that:
1. you can batch render a number of scripts
2. on a dual core it will start rendering 2 frames at a time (you don't get twice the performance, but it does seem to shave a bit of time off the renders compared to rendering directly out of shake itself)
3. if you need to run shake or something else, you can (I did this by accident once, ...wondered why shake was being a lot slower on this particular shot than usual, ...it was usable, but I don't recommend it).
4. you can pause the queue and restart anytime, ...even after the computer has been shut down, then loaded up again, ...qmaster retains lists of jobs pending.

Goodluck!

andrew