User Manual

General
The General preferences are designed with the most used options at the top in the General
section. These options determine in what capacity the system is used during network
rendering.
 Make This Machine a Render Master: When enabled, Fusion will accept network
render compositions from other computers and manage the render. It does not
necessarily mean that this computer will be directly involved in the render, but it will
submit the job to the render nodes listed in the Render Manager dialog.
 Allows This Machine to Be Used as a Network Slave: When enabled, this computer
can be used as a Render node and will accept compositions for network rendering.
Deselect it to prevent other people from submitting compositions to render on this
computer.
 Render on All Available Machines: Enable this checkbox to ignore groups and
priorities configured in the Render Manager. Compositions submitted from this
computer for network rendering will always be assigned to every available slave.
Email Notification
You can use the Email Notification section to set up who gets notified with status updates
regarding the render jobs and the network.
 Notify Options: These checkboxes cause emails to be sent when certain render events
take place. The available events are Queue Completion, Job Done, and Job Failure.
 Send Email to: Enter the address or addresses to which notifications should be sent.
You separate multiple addresses with a semicolon.
 Override Sender Address: Enter an email address that will be used as the sender
address. If this option is not selected, no sender address is used, which may cause
some spam filters to prevent the message from being delivered to the recipient.
Server Settings
This section covers Clustering and Network Rendering. For more information on these settings
and clustering, see Chapter 55, “Rendering Using Saver Nodes” in the DaVinci Resolve manual
or Chapter 4 in the Fusion Studio manual.
Path Maps
Path Maps are virtual paths used to replace segments of file paths with variables. For example,
define the path ‘movie_x’ as actually being in X\Shows\Movie_X. Using this example, Fusion
would understand the path ‘movie_x\scene_5\ scan.000.cin’ as actually being X:\Shows\
Movie_X\scene_5\scan.000.cin.
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