PadawanGeek's Blog

As you may know, I have been using Vimeo to upload my HD videos to. Recently Vimeo came out with Vimeo Plus, which gives you 2 GB per week, no ads, and more for $59.95 per year. This all sounds good, but the free version of Vimeo has been downgraded. Now, you can only upload 1 HD video per week. This would be fine with me if the numbers rolled over, so that I could upload no videos one week, then two videos the next, and so on. Also, it costs $10 per 1000 views to embed a video in an external page. How hard is it for them to embed a video?

As a result of this, I have decided to start using Exposure Room. Though I don't like the XR interface as much as Vimeo's, I would rather use XR, who lets me do multiple uploads per week and free embedding.

So here's Pillow Man, our worst film ever =P, on Exposure Room!

I haven't had many blog posts up in a while, because school has started and I'm bogged down with homework from my math teacher (all of my other subjects are fine on homework, but math.... grr...). Anyway, this blog post is about my new render farm. What is a render farm you ask?

A render farm, also known as "networked rendering", is when two or more computers work together to render, or create, the same video file. My render farm is for Adobe After Effects.

I first got the idea for a render farm when I was talking with two of my cousins and I said something about the old computers I had lying around. They jokingly said, "You should make a render farm!". I laughed and forgot about it. The other day I was bored so I decided to start trying to make a render farm. I set up one of the computers in my room on the network and loaded up After Effects Render Engine on it (free). Then, I tried to create a shared folder on my main computer but it didn't work at all. So I changed the watch folder to a folder on my NAS and it worked.

The problem now is that the NAS is slow and it slows down the hole render process. Unless I can get it to work using a computer for sharing instead of the NAS, the render farm is useless to me because it doesn't improve the render speeds. Anyone have any tips on file sharing on Windows XP?

Zerek44 and I were really bored and we thought we would make our own cheap superhero movie! We know its cheesy.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH IN HD

or just watch it in SD right here:



Pillow Man! from PadawanGeek on Vimeo.

AHHHH!!!! I'm so happy! I just got a Canon HV30! Its an awesome awesome possum HD camera! Here's a video about it.

Go to the Vimeo Page http://vimeo.com/1446265 to watch it in HD or just watch it in standard definition right here:

My New HV30 from PadawanGeek on Vimeo.

Sorry guys, but my blog theme is not working becasue I tried to change it and now its all screwed up. Ive been working on it for hours and can't fix it so I'm going to bed now. Bye.