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Hello and welcome to the forums   

Have you tried just breaking the animation up into smaller pieces and have each unit render a piece of it.

Say you have 15,000 frames as an example  (since you said you have 15 computers you want to use) ; just create your m3a file and set computer #1 to render frames 1 to 1,000; computer #2 to render frames 1,001 to 2,000; computer #3 to render frames 2.001 to 3,000; etc.

That will work to create 15 "chapters" which should be easy to sequence in After Effects.

No networking or render farm coordination needed.

I'd try a smaller file first to discover any bugs in the process that may exist.  Perhaps a 1,500 frame test animation with 100 frames per unit?  Just to see if this idea has any unforeseen issues.

Hope that helps!

Good luck with it.

Personally, I would not open After Effects until all rendering is finished.  Furthermore, AE is not good for rendering big movie files - it's meant for doing effects on small clips.  A Non-Linear Video Editor is much more robust for full movie type files.

If using the Adobe Suite, I'd suggest Premiere Pro.  If not, perhaps Final Cut if you wish to edit on a mac.

Those programs will create a full video file much faster and with much less demand on system resources.  AE will still do it if that is all you have, but it will take far longer and eat up much more resources on whatever computer is doing the work.

As for multiple instances on a mac, no idea.  I'd try opening multiple instances of WINE and trying to run 1 instance of MB3D in each rather than multiple instances of MB3D in a single instance of WINE.

Also, when you say:


Why is AE even open until all frames are rendered?

Sounds like your workflow is in need of an overhaul!

To keep all instances from rendering the same frame you need to set the start frame different for each instance.  There is no network coordination between different instances of Mandelbulb3D.  My advice is to set each instance to render to a different folder and work with multiple image sequences.  There is no way I know of to use multiple instances to create a single image sequence.

Hope that helps!

I misunderstood.  My mistake.

Sorry.

It sounded like you were adding post work as frames render, which would be strange, thus my comment.

I don't know of any way to add more simultaneous frame rendering than breaking it up as described  (which you say can't be done on a mac, so I'm sure is limiting).

Good luck with it, and if you find a way to improve your use of multiple instances of MB3D running parallel, post it please.  I'm sure others will find it of interest   

Good luck with it!

Thanks for the replies!
I was trying to write a simple applescript that tries to open from command I just dont know what to point it to.
on a mack you can open the package contents and see everything that is included in the wine wrapper.
But I have tried pointing the script to everything there from wineskin to the exe itself to contents/macos/wineskinlauncher

none are working..
hope to find a fix to maximize my rendering.
on a pc seems like its no issue at all.