Hey guys, the thing is:

I'm trying to render this 5 scenes in VUE 8 xstream for a comercial editorial project, the needed image resolution is about 5500x3500 pixels in 300 dpi.

The PC I'm using isn't really great but runs Vue ok, the fact is that it keeps crashing when I try to render this high res scenes, 

Can i do anything to avoid this?

Considering I'm in a desperate situation, do you guys know where can I rent (on-line, for I live in Brazil) PCs for rendering this images?

Thanks a lot guys, any help will be extremely useful.

Sorry about my english, it's not really great.

It sounds like you are most likely running out of memory during rendering.

You can try to use a comercial service to render the scene. I have used "The Ranch" previously. They are fast and very helpful. You can find information at their website:

http://www.ranchcomputing.com/

I can recommend their services.

Ciao

TD

dpi?!
it has NO meaning in digital output, WTH would they ask for 300 dpi and a pixel size?!

DPI is only for print

Pixel is ONLY for screens

(unless some expert knows better, that's way it works far as I am aware)

WHen making an image or video, you set it for EITHER:

pixel size

OR

a real world unit (like A4) and DPI for print

never both.

anway, it's a huge render size, so unles you have a lot of RAM or a simple scene, you'll have problems

Quote - dpi?!
it has NO meaning in digital output, WTH would they ask for 300 dpi and a pixel size?!

DPI is only for print

Pixel is ONLY for screens

(unless some expert knows better, that's way it works far as I am aware)

WHen making an image or video, you set it for EITHER:

pixel size

OR

a real world unit (like A4) and DPI for print

never both.

 

anway, it's a huge render size, so unles you have a lot of RAM or a simple scene, you'll have problems

Yeah, I actually know this. And yes, that's for printing (didn't i mention it's for an editorial project?), the size of each image must be 47x35 cm which corresponds to a little bit more than 5500x3500 pixels wide. (5616x3744 if including the bleed area of the book). I'm not only doing the 3D but also the book graphic project and stuff related.

No simple scene and not a lot of RAM either. lol. And the budget is down low if you really wanna know, which makes the option given by thd777 not available at the moment.

Thanks anyway man!

Quote - It sounds like you are most likely running out of memory during rendering.

You can try to use a comercial service to render the scene. I have used "The Ranch" previously. They are fast and very helpful. You can find information at their website:

http://www.ranchcomputing.com/

I can recommend their services.

Ciao

TD

Thanks a lot man! 

Pretty helpful, though their prices are a little bit out of my range lol. I can't afford U$1000,00 on this five images, that's almost the half of my payment.

Thanks a lot anyway!

Have you tried rendering with the stand-alone renderer (aka external renderer)? If Vue isn't extremely low on resources when you start an external render session, it should run without problems.
Also agree on the pixels/dpi issue, it's pretty poinless to think of dpi in a render.

• Lars "bigbraader" 

Attached Link: http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2551

i like the idea at that link of "render to disk"

Agree it's useless to talk about DPI, but sadly, that's how Vue shows render resolution in the render options, misleading users in thinking DPI=PPI. I'd really like to see this changed.