2008

PROBLEM: I cannot assign more than one server to a job in the
Network Job Assignment dialog.
If the output of a network-rendering job is an AVI or MOV file, or a single
user device, the job can be assigned to a single server only. The Network Job
Assignment dialog changes, depending on the file output type of a job. For
example, if you are network rendering to one of the file formats above, the
All and None buttons do not appear and the dialog title bar contains the word
"Single."
If a job that has an AVI or MOV file output type is stopped for any reason (to
deactivate it, or because a machine goes down), re-rendering the file restarts
at the first frame. Frames cannot be appended later to these file types.
SUGGESTION
To take advantage of the distributed power of network rendering we suggest
you first render to a series of Targa files. Then use the Targa files as either an
animated background in an empty 3ds Max scene, or as an image input event
in Video Post and render the sequence out to the desired output type (for
example, AVI).
PROBLEM:When I click the Render button on the Render Scene
dialog, I get an error dialog stating:
Error Retrieving Configuration File
This error usually is the result of a corrupt installation of the Backburner
applications which caused an errant registry setting.
SUGGESTION
Try reinstalling the Backburner components of the program or manually edit
the system registry.
Editing the registry:
1 Choose Start > Run.
2 Enter RegEdit and click OK
3 Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Autodesk >
Backburner > 2007.1
4 Check the CfgPath entry. Make sure the value is set to c:\Program
Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\nrapi.conf.
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