Configuring settings: Render Engine jobs

Only systems with a Render Engine require this process.

Depending on the workflow and bandwidth requirements of your system, Grass Valley may provide a system design in which multiple engines of the same type run on one or more servers. Configure engines as specified by your system design.

According to your system design, specify the maximum number of concurrent conform jobs and the maximum number of concurrent proxy encoder jobs allowed on the Render Engine server. If the server is used as an EDIUS XRE server, you can configure XRE jobs as well. Use these settings to balance resource load on the system hosting the engine.

Settings are as follows:

Table 1. Render Engine maximum concurrent jobs settings
Job type	XML attribute	Default setting
EDIUS XRE	XRE	1
Conform Engine	Conform	1
Proxy Encoder	Transcode	4

If there is no setting, the Render Engine uses the default setting. If set to zero, the Render Engine does not process jobs of that type.

The total maximum number of jobs is limited by the number of simultaneous FTP connections available.

If you want to set the concurrent jobs number to be different than the default setting, do the following:

On the Render Engine server at ..\ProgramData\Grass Valley\EDIUS\7.0\XRE, open GVRenderEngineSetting.xml in a text editor.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<edius:edius xmlns:edius="http://www.canopus.com/ns/edius">
	<xre:xre xmlns:xre="http://www.canopus.com/ns/edius/xre">
		<xre:xreClient version="1.00">
			<xre:nodeName>GVRenderEngine-servername</xre:nodeName>
			<xre:concurrentEncodingCount>
				<xre:num type="XRE">1</xre:num>
				<xre:num type="Conform">1</xre:num>
				<xre:num type="Transcode">4</xre:num>
			</xre:concurrentEncodingCount>		
			<xre:controllers>
				<xre:guid>7BC52704-A775-44A9-BAC4-E4D87703C613</xre:guid>
			</xre:controllers>
		</xre:xreClient>
	</xre:xre>
</edius:edius>

For each xre:num element, relative to the type attribute that specifies the job type, set the value.
If not, the value is set according to the default setting.
If you have configured the GV Render Engine setting in Start | All Programs | Grass Valley | XREAdminConsole, the xre:guid attribute for xre:controllers is already automatically configured.
If not, you can find the attribute in XREServerList.xml file at ..\ProgramData\Grass Valley\EDIUS\7.0\XRE.
Save and close GVRenderEngineSetting.xml.
Restart the Render Engine server.