Hey eamsler,
I know what situation you are refering to (the different frame rate issue), we had this with R16 - Deadline 8 combo, but it’s not the problem here.
I actually figured out what is happening, but I don’t know why exactly. Here’s the Take setup window in Cinema4D:
On the left, you can select which take is actually active in viewport so you can make modifications (green). Then you can setup a different Camera (blue) and a different Render Settings (red) for each take. You can also check which Takes you would like to be marked active (purple).
Now let’s say you submit the scene to Deadline, specifying to render the marked takes, each nodes that pick up the Job for the 1st time will actually render with the render setting from the take that is in focus when you submitted the project, no matter what take it is actually suppose to render. It will do so only for the 1st task it renders of that job, then for the 2nd task, it will render the with right settings.
That is why I was missing frames in the Multi-pass folder. Because the take in focus was using a render setting that didn’t have any multi-pass setup. So when using this setting, it would not save any multi-pass. Then on the 2nd task, it would use the right settings and it would save the Multi-Pass frames properly.
We did a test rendering a Take that was setup for JPEG, but with another Take in focus that was setup to render TIFF, and we end up with a mix of JPEG and TIFF in the folder for a single Job render. Weird stuff.
The obvious workaround is to set the focus on the take you want to render before submitting to Deadline (we tried, it works). The problem is that you can only set the focus on one takes, so if you have several takes using different render settings, you’d need to submit them in group, changing the focus for each submission.
I’m still not sure at what level this can be fixed, Maxon, Thinkbox or both.
