Rendering to Wiretap

Rendering to Wiretap

To set the Wiretap mode for new compositions:

1. In the menu bar, select Edit > Project Preferences.
2. In the Project Preferences window, select the Render tab.
   
3. Click the Wiretap button.
4. In the text field next to the Wiretap button, do one of the following:
   • Type in the path.
   • Using the File Browser, navigate to a Wiretap folder, right-click the item in the right pane, and select Copy Path. Paste the contents in the Wiretap field (Ctrl + V for Windows and Linux or Cmd + V for Mac OS).
   • Using the File Browser, navigate to a Wiretap folder, select the path in the browser path text field, copy it (Ctrl + C for Windows and Linux or Cmd + C for Mac OS), and then paste it in the Wiretap field (Ctrl + V for Windows and Linux or Cmd + V for Mac OS). Either one of the following forms are acceptable:
   • Wiretap:<servername>/…

     or

   • <servername>/…

   The server specified corresponds generally to an IFFFS server. In the text field, the prefix “Wiretap:” is stripped off if present, because it is implicit. For IFFFS, the path must specify a writable folder, which is either a library or a reel. For example: Wiretap:/belgium/stonefs/myProject/myLibrary/myReel/. The trailing slash is optional.

   You can also set Wiretap rendering on existing compositions, for each output. Select an output node in the composition, and click on the Render tab in the UI. The same Wiretap controls as described above are available for the output.

Troubleshooting Wiretap

If the clip is not rendering to Wiretap, it may be for one of the following reasons:

• The Wiretap server on the destination host is down.
• The destination folder is not a library or a reel.
• The library is already opened by a Smoke or Flame user on the remote machine which will only allow the read only mode.
• A composition name contains parentheses.