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2 Start 3ds Max, and load the first scene you want to batch render.

3 Open the Render Scene dialog and adjust the various rendering parameters

for the way you want to render the scene, including active viewport, file

output, etc.

4 Turn on Net Render in the Render Output group, and then click Render.

5 In the resulting

Network Job Assignment dialog on page 6279 , click the

Connect button.

6 Click the Submit button.

NOTE Each job should have a unique output file name and/or path to avoid

overwriting output files. If you get an alert dialog that says, "Another job is

using the same output name…," you can click the No button, click Cancel

to exit the Network Job Assignment dialog, and then change the output

name and/or path. Otherwise, you can click the Yes button and let the job

overwrite the frames from the other job in the queue.

7 Load the next scene you want rendered, and then repeat steps 4 through

Once you’ve submitted all rendering jobs, you can exit 3ds Max, if you want.

If power is lost before all jobs are rendered (either by accident or by intentional

powering down of your computer), when you restart the Backburner Manager

and Server programs, the rendering process will resume where it left off.

Using Backburner for Batch Rendering

Using Backburner for batch rendering is a simple matter of starting the

software, running the Backburner Manager and Server programs, specifying

the scenes you want rendered, and then proceeding with the rendering. In

this case, Backburner coordinates a series of rendering tasks that are network

rendered on a single computer.

The process is very similar to rendering over a network. With network

rendering, the scenes you submit to the rendering queue are called 'jobs'. The

following steps show how to submit multiple jobs to the rendering queue.

Your system has to be properly configured in the TCP/IP protocol (see “Setting

Up TCP/IP on Windows-Based Backburner Components” in the Autodesk

Backburner Installation Guide) to perform Backburner batch rendering. If you do

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