Setup guide

Setting Up Background Wire and Background Proxy
Generation
Background Wire transfers and proxy generation rely on Backburner. The Backburner Server that automatically
installs with the Autodesk Visual Effects and Finishing application communicates with a Backburner Manager
on the Wire network to accomplish background transfers or generate the proxies.
Use the following procedure to set up background Wire transfers and proxy generation.
To set up background Wire and proxy generation:
1 Make sure Backburner Server is set to run automatically on your workstation. Type:
chkconfig –-list | grep -i backburner
The following line should be part of the command output:
backburner_server 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off
If backburner_server is not set to “on” for run levels 2, 3, 4, and 5, type the following commands to
enable and start it:
chkconfig backburner_server on
/etc/init.d/backburner restart
2 Make sure there is a Backburner Manager system on your network, and that the hostname or IP address
of the Manager system is set in the /usr/discreet/backburner/cfg/manager.host file on your workstation.
3 Make sure the following Backburner keywords in the /usr/discreet/<product_home>/cfg/init.cfg file are
configured properly.
SettingKeyword
Set <hostname> to the hostname or IP address of the workstation running
Backburner Manager. This hostname or IP address must match the one in the
BackburnerManagerHostname
<hostname>
/usr/discreet/backburner/cfg/manager.host file. If it does not, background Wire
transfers will fail.
For a detailed description of this keyword, see BackburnerManagerHostname
on page 87.
Set <priority> to a value from 0 to 100. The default is 50.
For a detailed description of this keyword, see BackburnerManagerPriority on
page 88.
BackburnerManagerPriority <prior-
ity>
Set <groupname> to the name of a group of computers on a Burn
®
ren-
dering network. For example, if the name of the group is “renderfarm1”, you
would set this keyword to BackburnerManagerGroup renderfarm1.
For a detailed description of this keyword, see BackburnerManagerGroup on
page 88.
BackburnerManagerGroup
<groupname>
Upgrading Projects to the Current Version
You can automatically upgrade your projects from a previous version of your Visual Effects and Finishing
application to the newly installed version using the copyProjects command-line tool.
NOTE You do not need to perform this task if you are upgrading to a service pack of the same version or extension.
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