Yes, that helps, thanks! I forgot about the location and remember seeing it under the Add On.

Gilligan moment.

Thanks for the quick response. I was thinking the same workaround as you put forth.

Where does CR save the animation when it is completed? I was used to 2.79b Net Render and it letting you save the animation file to a directory of your choosing.

G'day @kevanko, ok, right now, support for working on other files while you have a render in progress is not very automagical as you put it, but it is possible.

So, being honest about the addon's capability, it does not like (work) if you have the addon saved as enabled, and you open an additional Blender instance. And of course, opening a second instance of blender is kind of what you have to do in order to achieve what I think you want.

Lets walk through an example, assuming you want to render project A and work on project B.

1. You'll need to make sure Crowdrender is not enabled when you start blender, you should disable it in Blender's user preferences, then save your user preferences.

2. Open one instance of blender, enable the addon, open project A, connect your render nodes, and start rendering. You'll need to keep this session of blender open for the duration of the render.

3. Open project B in a separate instance of blender and of course DO NOT enable the addon this time. Doing so will cause project A to stop rendering.

This is the temporary work around, I've probably mentioned this so many times that I am likely no longer an engineer but a salesman, but anyways, we're completely redesigning both addon and the core system so that rendering will not require you to keep the session with Project A open at all. It will be fire and forget.

In fact the new system will allow you to completely turn off the computer you started the rendering from, and pick the project back up later, when you feel like it.

Hope this helps, please let us know if any of this is either confusing, or doesn't work in your case.

Thanks!