DrQueue, The Open Source Distributed Render Queue
Maya, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Blender, Pixie, 3Delight, Bmrt, Aqsis, After Effects, Shake, Nuke and Terragen as well as almost every Video or 3D Tool that supports command-line rendering can be used for distributed rendering with drqueue. It is free, it is open source. And Apple Compressor as of Version 2 supports command line-rendering. Any idea if it would be possible to run some 20 old pentium2 or pentium3 machines with intel-OSX (osx86) and have a distributed MPEG2 rendering? Yellow told me that that’s not possible with such codecs, as they are “not really frame-per-frame based”. Hmmm…