Uberware Smedge 3

About Smedge and Uberware

For nearly a decade, Smedge has been a favourite tool for artists to use to distribute their renders across multiple machines. Smedge is very reliable, easy to configure, and wide open to customisation and extension by customers without any need for any type of programming experience. Smedge can be configured into any pipeline or production flow, and scales well to support even the largest server farms.

Out of the box, Smedge can handle rendering of most of the popular 2D and 3D rendering systems in production use at top studios around the world, including Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Lightwave, NUKE, SOFTIMAGE|XSI, Shake, Adobe AfterEffects, Pixar’s RenderMan, Eyeon Digital Fusion, and many other rendering products, both commercial and open source.

Smedge works identically in Windows, Linux and OS-X environments and provides path translation services to aid in cross-platform utilisation.

Smedge 3

The latest generation of Smedge provides unbeatable power and flexibility combined with incredible stability. All while maintaining the ease of use users have always loved. And soon, combining your Windows, Linux and Mac machines will be a snap with the amazing cross-platform abilities.

Far beyond the mere render farm control, the Smedge system is designed to accurately and efficiently distribute absolute anything. If it can be divided up, Smedge can manage it. All Job interface and control is managed as a unique "Product" in the system. You can easily customise and add Products of your own with simple text files, or you can use the Smedge 3 Application Programming Interface to write your own custom Modules for the Smedge system.

To find out more or to buy now please contact our Technology Team or call us on +44 (0) 207 348 1920.