Having moved from CC a few years ago in to a DR workflow, you've consistently provided great information to help me level up. Hopefully a lot more Fusion orientated content will start to appear in the future. Thank you.
I've got some extra old PCs that I don't use regularly, and would make perfect node for rendering farm. I'd also love to see this on Davinci Resolve for rendering video, not just Fusion
Does Resolve have a similar distrubed rendering feature for video editing. Not just a single remote render station but a small network of rendiering stations. Thanks for a great video
Thanks Robert - Sort of, you can do different timelines to different computers - I cover that in this tutorial - th-cam.com/video/wdtcBmR3bLM/w-d-xo.html
This is awesome, Thanks Chadwick! I might have missed it but - do you have any idea if you could use an ancient 5.1 Mac Pro intel machine? I’d assume not as I bet you need a current OS.
Kind of, one timeline can go to another machine to render it - This is called remote rendering - covered here - th-cam.com/video/wdtcBmR3bLM/w-d-xo.html
Nice one! I’ve never used Fusion Studio. Is there a way to start a Fusion comp in Resolve, open it in Fusion Studio, render with this technique (then bring back to Resolve)?
Hi Chadwick - thank you for your tutorials - they are such a fantastic resource. I do have a question about this one though. I have a small post-setup, where using multiple machines to render makes a lot of sense. I've successfully followed your video, however things go pear shape when I try to work this way using VFX Connect out of Resolve. In that case, I'm not changing my render path, as VFX Connect expects the renders to be where it wants them, but I'm doing everything else the same. When I do, however, it just doesn't work, the other render nodes drop offline, and even the local host fails to render properly. Have you tested this workflow in conjunction with VFX connect? I'd be keen to know if you're having the same issues. All machines running the latest Fusion and Resolve 19.1.2 on macs that are all on a 10GBE network. Thanks in advance, and again, thanks for all your great tips!
Thanks for a great question - this isn't something I've tried. Question - when you created the VFX connect clip - did you point it to a shared network location? If not, that would be the problem. I'll have to test this out sometime this week.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thanks for your reply Chadwick. Yes, I tried 2 ways, both pointing to the same shared NAS. The first was the old creating a VFX Connect Clip, as an EXR image sequence, and the second, was using what seems to be a new feature in the latest version of Resolve when creating a VFX connect clip, which is "use source clip". The second would be my preferred way of working, being able to use the source clip is something I've wanted to be able to do for a long time, and will make using VFX Connect a much more useful way to work. I will do some more tests today, but when I created a new Fusion comp, and added the exact same clip, as what VFX Connect was using, the multi-machine render worked fine. I'd be interested to know if you get similar results. Thanks!
Hi again, okay, after a bunch more testing, I seem to have resolved the issues I was having, and also realise my previous response was a little inaccurate regarding VFX connect "using source clip". This option is available when working with a file such as a ProRes file (and I think has been in previous versions of resolve), but not when using a RAW clip like an R3D, which is what I most commonly would be starting with. What I discovered, was because I was doing round trip tests, I was working quickly, and had not been saving my work, before starting a network render, so the render was rendering clean EXR files (no effects added), because this was the last saved version - hence it appeared not to be working. Yesterday I was having issues of the render nodes not connecting properly when using VFX Connect, but today, they are working fine. I think that may just come down to certain network permissions not having properly taken effect when I first started testing, that are now all good. Will continue testing today, but looks like we might have a new workflow for our fusion work, so thank you once again!
You have a keen eye - yeah this was my mistake. I did not hit save (command s) before starting the render. Fusion remembered the previous saved version of the comp file which was v30.
00:00 - How to set up a Blackmagic Fusion Render Farm for Resolve
01:03 - Render Farm Prerequisites
02:44 - Download Fusion Studio Installer
05:59 - Download Comp
08:00 - Relative Render Paths
12:11 - Render Manager
13:27 - Render Saver to Network
17:22 - Extend Timeline to Match Loader
18:17 - Sequence to Proxy to Cloud
19:39 - Blackmagic Cloud Proxies
Your tutorials about Fusion workflows are outstanding! Thank you for sharing with us! Keep on with these kind of videos!
Glad you like them! They're fun to make.
Officially the best workflow tutorial you've made
Wow, thank you!
Having moved from CC a few years ago in to a DR workflow, you've consistently provided great information to help me level up. Hopefully a lot more Fusion orientated content will start to appear in the future. Thank you.
I've got some extra old PCs that I don't use regularly, and would make perfect node for rendering farm. I'd also love to see this on Davinci Resolve for rendering video, not just Fusion
This is the resolve version of using extra computers - th-cam.com/video/wdtcBmR3bLM/w-d-xo.html
Now we need a test with 10-15 Raspberry Pi 5 😎
I would love to see that.
Call the pi guy 😅
Love your videos!
Thank you!
Does Resolve have a similar distrubed rendering feature for video editing. Not just a single remote render station but a small network of rendiering stations.
Thanks for a great video
Thanks Robert - Sort of, you can do different timelines to different computers - I cover that in this tutorial - th-cam.com/video/wdtcBmR3bLM/w-d-xo.html
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Awesome & Thanks :)
Nice!
Thanks for watching!
This is awesome, Thanks Chadwick! I might have missed it but - do you have any idea if you could use an ancient 5.1 Mac Pro intel machine? I’d assume not as I bet you need a current OS.
Thanks! I would give it a try. The iMac I used in this video is from 2015 running an older OS. It's not very fast, but does contribute.
Brilliant. I did wonder if you had any hair left, now I know you have. Keep it up
Ha - that was unplanned!
Is it possible that 3 or 4 computers can render together what is being edited in the Edit tab in DaVinci Resolve?
Kind of, one timeline can go to another machine to render it - This is called remote rendering - covered here - th-cam.com/video/wdtcBmR3bLM/w-d-xo.html
Great video, thanks. Btw, where do you get the spaceship scene that you were using? I went looking for it, but couldn't find it.
Thanks - its on this page - if you click to download demo project files - www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion
Nice one! I’ve never used Fusion Studio. Is there a way to start a Fusion comp in Resolve, open it in Fusion Studio, render with this technique (then bring back to Resolve)?
Hi Joseph! - yeah it's called VFX connect, I have a video on it here - th-cam.com/video/RA_w_GkMhwQ/w-d-xo.html
@ awesome thanks
Hi Chadwick - thank you for your tutorials - they are such a fantastic resource. I do have a question about this one though. I have a small post-setup, where using multiple machines to render makes a lot of sense. I've successfully followed your video, however things go pear shape when I try to work this way using VFX Connect out of Resolve. In that case, I'm not changing my render path, as VFX Connect expects the renders to be where it wants them, but I'm doing everything else the same. When I do, however, it just doesn't work, the other render nodes drop offline, and even the local host fails to render properly. Have you tested this workflow in conjunction with VFX connect? I'd be keen to know if you're having the same issues. All machines running the latest Fusion and Resolve 19.1.2 on macs that are all on a 10GBE network. Thanks in advance, and again, thanks for all your great tips!
Thanks for a great question - this isn't something I've tried. Question - when you created the VFX connect clip - did you point it to a shared network location? If not, that would be the problem. I'll have to test this out sometime this week.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thanks for your reply Chadwick. Yes, I tried 2 ways, both pointing to the same shared NAS. The first was the old creating a VFX Connect Clip, as an EXR image sequence, and the second, was using what seems to be a new feature in the latest version of Resolve when creating a VFX connect clip, which is "use source clip". The second would be my preferred way of working, being able to use the source clip is something I've wanted to be able to do for a long time, and will make using VFX Connect a much more useful way to work. I will do some more tests today, but when I created a new Fusion comp, and added the exact same clip, as what VFX Connect was using, the multi-machine render worked fine. I'd be interested to know if you get similar results. Thanks!
Hi again, okay, after a bunch more testing, I seem to have resolved the issues I was having, and also realise my previous response was a little inaccurate regarding VFX connect "using source clip". This option is available when working with a file such as a ProRes file (and I think has been in previous versions of resolve), but not when using a RAW clip like an R3D, which is what I most commonly would be starting with. What I discovered, was because I was doing round trip tests, I was working quickly, and had not been saving my work, before starting a network render, so the render was rendering clean EXR files (no effects added), because this was the last saved version - hence it appeared not to be working. Yesterday I was having issues of the render nodes not connecting properly when using VFX Connect, but today, they are working fine. I think that may just come down to certain network permissions not having properly taken effect when I first started testing, that are now all good. Will continue testing today, but looks like we might have a new workflow for our fusion work, so thank you once again!
Will IT also works with Windows RTX Computer in the net??? Mac/Windows?
I haven't tried, but it should as long as the computer is in network.
This channel is really something of it’s own 🥹
thanks for waching
Why still V30 after you wrote V31 in saver node？
You have a keen eye - yeah this was my mistake. I did not hit save (command s) before starting the render. Fusion remembered the previous saved version of the comp file which was v30.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thanks for reply. Hopefully new version will check saver node setting every time even not save😄
I paid for Davinci Resolve, but I am unable to download Fusion alone. It asks me to pay again.
For sure you should be able to download it? Are you on the bmd support page?
At 3:10 "requires a Fusion Studio license dongle"
Nice!
Thanks for watching!