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Installing Third-Party Plug-Ins on Render Nodes
All third-party plug-ins and tools used by a composition must be installed in the plug-ins
directory of each Render Node. A Render Node attempting to render a composition that uses a
plug-in that’s not installed will fail to render. Licensed plug-ins are required on each
Render Node.
Other Uses of Network Rendering
Although you will probably set up network rendering for the purpose of accelerating the output
of your final renders, Fusion is capable of using the network for other purposes as well. You can
use the nerdier nodes on your network to accelerate the creation fo Flipbook Previews and disk
caching as well.
Flipbook Previews
Fusion Studio is able to use Render Nodes to accelerate the production of Flipbook Previews,
allowing for lightning fast previews. Frames for previews that are not network rendered are
rendered directly into memory. Select the Use Network checkbox and the Render Nodes to
render the preview frames to the folder set in the Preferences Global > Path > Preview Renders.
This folder should be accessible for all Render Nodes that will participate in the network render.
The default value is Temp\, which is a virtual path pointing to the system’s default temp folder.
This will need to be changed before network rendered previews can function. Once the
preview render is completed, the frames that are produced by each Render node are spooled
into memory on the local workstation. As each frame is copied into memory, it is deleted
from disk.
Disk Cache
Right-clicking a node in the Node Editor and choosing Cache to Disk opens a dialog used to
create the disk cache. If you enabled the Use Network checkbox and click the Pre-Render
button to submit the disk cache, the network Render Nodes are used to accelerate the creation
of the disk cache.
Render Nodes can be used for disk caching as well as final renders.
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