Hi,

I'm just wondering if you had a bunch of networked lightworks systems, is it easy to set up a machine to do all the project exporting en masse? Would be handy to be able to add batches of exports to an ongoing list, rather than have to do it piecemeal.

Any info on this would be much appreciated.

You can certainly export numerous item at once - the contents of a bin for example - but at the moment you'd be exporting them all using the same settings (ie. you wouldn't be able to export the same edit multiple times as SD, HD, etc, in one go)

Only being able to export one format at a time would be ok, can transcode using other tools, but is it possible to add to the render queue before the current job has finished?

If not I guess I need to look at exporting procedural files from Lightworks and rendering with other software that has queuing functionality. I don't suppose you have any knowledge of this particular usage of Lightworks?

Thanks

I think this is where the Open Source release comes in. From the code, someone could create a LW Render Server and LW Render Client. Basically the server could import projects, select what needs to be rendered (edits, bins, etc.) and tell the clients what to render and the export format(s) required. Each client could be rendering to a different format or if image sequences are being rendered, which frames to render.

That would be sweet.

The best I can up with so far is exporting Lightworks as EDL, importing to FCP 7, and then using FCP / Compressor for the render queueing.

If anyone has any better ideas, please do enlighten me!

I still pine for a render queue...