Setting up a Render Farm

[JamesMK]

Well, at PAL-resolution for instance, you'll get around 1 meg/frame if you render to individual targa files. That makes around 1.5 GB for one minute of animation at 25 fps. Assuming that many projects will render as multipass, maybe you could end up with 5 - 10 megs of uncompressed data per frame, it could be as bad as 15 GB per minute. But since huge harddrives come cheap these days, this shouldn't be a big problem.

[squidinc]

the filesizes for animation projects would be different every time, there is no standard filesize, if that's what you mean, it depends on how many frames there are, the resolution you're rendering at, and what codec you use to compress the frames, uncompressed video can be huge file sizes, can be over a 100 meg for a few seconds of animation, so in that case it could be a problem if you don't have much HD space

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