Hey all, I’ve had no luck submitting After Effects jobs to Deadline if they use Quicktime movies at all. I mean, they submit and appear to start rendering but then the slaves will just sit there and not spit out any frames. There are no error messages and nothing in the logs. I’m fine avoiding Quicktimes but artists stick them in when I’m not looking. Is there any way for me to force Deadline to fail if it’s trying to render a project and encounters a Quicktime?
Thanks.
Is Quicktime installed on the render nodes? Are you able to launch AE on one of the nodes and perform a local render of a project that contains a Quicktime?
When rendering a project, the only hint it has about what format it will be rendering to will be the output path, so in theory, you could modify the AE plugin to just fail a job if it has an output path that ends with .mov. However, it would probably be best to try and figure out why the Quicktimes fail to render before going down that route. 
Cheers,
Thanks Ryan. The problem occurs if Quicktime files are used in the comp. Quicktime is definitely installed on all of the nodes but I’ve never had an After Effects comp that used QT clips in it successfully render through Deadline and there’s never an error, the slaves just sit there. It will certainly work on a single machine.
Did you try it? We definitely need confirmation here. 
All Deadline is doing is running an after effects command line and waiting for it to finish. If a local render works on a render node, then the next step would be to test a command line render on the same node. So please let us know if a local render works on a render node and we’ll go from there.
Thanks!
are the quicktimes you are using in After Effects encoded using any specific codecs that do not come with quicktime ? We use quicktimes all the time with our after effects submissions. The only time we have an issue is if someone throws us an odd codec