Installing Flamenco in 5 minutes

In this video, dr. Sybren (lead software developer) shows how to set up Blender's render farm software Flamenco in just five minutes.

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Flamenco is the Free and Open Source render manager used at Blender Studio.

[BenleGentil]

I've been using it (on a single workstation) for 3 weeks now and it completely changed my workflow. I know it's not the intented use but the ability to send a render job (single frame) and keep working on the blender file while it renders has been life-changing for my productivity. Many thanks!

[nicholasmasterton]

Incredibly easy to set up, I am up and rendering on the network in no time, thank you so much for this free software. Absolute game changer from an absolute legend!

[unboring]

Excellent tutorial, thank you! I've tried and failed to integrate Flamenco into my workflow in the past, and now it's a breeze with the improvements to the onboarding along with this great tutorial. Thanks again!

[AlfredTsaizer]

Awesome! I've been looking forward to easy setup flamenco for years now! Can't wait to give it a try!

[Loopinglovers]

love this - using this to set up a render que, so my workstation renders my jobs over night in a neat que. thank you so much. also impressed how easy this is to use

[linktavo]

This is pure gold, thank you for all the hard work put on creating this super necessary tool in complex pipelines.

[smilgu]

Thank You! Flamenco is an amazing stuff!

[mrmacnoobster]

Would love a video going over how to create custom jobs or tweak the default one. The JavaScript is a bit intimidating to go through...

[sinlesscracker]

Thank you for this, it was really helpful.

[kaczorefx]

What exactly is the function of the shared storage folders? Did the Blender project actually need to be in the shared projects folder? I'd assume the action of submitting the scene as a job to flamenco would create a copy of the project stored in a shared location, I'm guessing in the projects folder. But if so, the original project can be stored anywhere, doesn't have to be shared? Also the software folder - is it just so that we can run the worker.exe on any of the machines without having to copy it to each machine, or is it actually being used by flamenco and the folder MUST be named "software0?"

[conservatif]

* Can I use two PC connected with LAN equipped with different GPU's?
(4090 / 24GB and other 4070 / 16GB.)

* If project needs over 16GB (very often 20-24GB) of VRAM, would it use only PC with 4090?

* How installed addons, would there come a problems when rendering with two PC's? With (In SheepIt-farm rendering there was no textures in some addon-objects.)

[dotunebraen]

This is gonna be great, imma try it out

[DEMRZ]

Would it be possible to use this to queue up Octane Engine renders if using Octane Blender? I'm guessing this works seamlessly with Workbench, Eevee, and Cycles

[marcelo.coutinho]

tank you very much!! im installed it and worked very well!!

[xsvlgrw]

Is it possible to run Flamenco cross-platform? I am currently using Windows10 as a workstation, and Linux computers as render farm.

[gemmamrull]

Thanks a lot! I still remember the whole explaination at XD

[AlmazovS]

Is it possible to use workers in different OS? Like Linux / macOS / Windows

[arunsar]

So, Hadoop for rendering. Sounds good! :-)

[ogre]

I’m doing this on a Mac and for some reason am not able to get the set up assistant to find the path to the blender application, even if I put it in manually. Anyone have a solution?

[norbertszalko]

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand.
Is Flamenco a server park where I can render my larger projects for FREE? Like SheepIt Render Farm? :D
Or does this use my machine only in a web environment?