Sharing submitted project to slave in local mode through server or shared drive

[samytichadou]

Hey, For now Pandora on local mode copy the submitted project (and dependant files if the option is checked) on the slaves computers, then start rendering them.

This operation could take a while when dealing with big project file, and the links to external files (if not copied with the dependant files option) could be lost because of different hard drive and relative path, or different mount letter depending on computer. When working on a shared drive or server, i think it would be great to take advantage of this by not copying entirely the project and external files on another hard drive but reading it through this shared one.

To address the issue, an option could be added for example, to copy the submitted project in coordinator workfolder (which, in local mode, should be accessible by all slave computers) and read it from there. The user could also decide to create a temporary project in the original location of the submitted project (or a temporary folder), this could be easier to keep track of pandora's rendered shot and making sure external files links are ok (in case the coordinator workfolder is not on the same shared drive than the project and work material).

Thanks for your great work on this tool, cheers