in shake say you have these projects can you say....you have 5 projects with 5 file out node's. in the command line or in shake its self can you gang bang render them all at one time go to bed and the wake up and all of them are done?
I would personally do 5 .shk files and queue them up in queue master and batch them...
each will have their own file numbers and their output directory!
and render a file sequence vs a QT movie so if your render fails at some point you can pick it up from there.
hope this helps!
Peace
JM
Just make a multiline .bat file with a with a new line for each project. It would look something like this:
Shake -exec /folder1/project1.shk -vv -cpus 2
Shake -exec /folder2/project2.shk -vv -cpus 2
Shake -exec /folder3/project3.shk -vv -cpus 2
Shake -exec /folder4/project4.shk -vv -cpus 2
Shake -exec /folder5/project5.shk -vv -cpus 2
Here's a great thread on batch rendering through command line. Not too difficult either. http://www.highend3d.com/boards/showflat.p...;o=0&fpart=
QT renders now can be batched in qmaster 2, they render to an image sequence and then get stiched together for you, but they leave the sequence and the stiching file if you need to do a dodgy quick fix.
failing that, on linux i just keep a text document open to which i copy the script path into when i want to add something to the 'batch' then at the end of the day, I run a macro to add 'shake -cpus 2 -vv -exec ' to the start of all of them and the copy and paste into a terminal.