Introduction Smedge can be easily deployed manually on Windows using either the MSI or the ZIP archive. You can even deploy Smedge to a file server and run it from the server on every machine if you wish. But if you want to deploy the software locally on your machines but have too many machines…
Check out this fascinating new article about the work that Synect Media is doing for the Orlando Airport. Smedge plays a key role in generating content to fill a live video display area that covers over 10,000 square feet, or a total pixel area of 1,329,480 x 1,920. Put another way, Smedge is helping to…
Sometimes you have a render process that generates a huge amount of disk traffic that may bog things down. Or perhaps you have nodes that have to write to slower cloud storage. Slow network, slow storage, or excessive I/O by the render process can put a serious damper on render performance. So what can you…
Introduction Smedge is simple enough to use that you can run a render farm simply by simply double clicking the icon and letting it handle all the rest. However, this simplicity is actually built upon automated control of several components, which can be run independently. On a small farm, the simple automatic mode of operation…