Deadline and VUE = very, very slow.

Deadline
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Hi there,

I’m having an issue with VUE and Deadline - it renders fine through the VUE internal renderer, rendering at about 45 mins, but when I push it through deadline (Renderbulls), it’s taking over 2 hours per frame!
I’m in all kinds of trouble - any idead what could casue this?

Chris

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Can you try rendering with the renderbull command line renderer from a command prompt on one of your render nodes? If you need to see the render arguments that Deadline is using, you can check the render log for a task. If the render is slow from a command prompt as well, then at least we know it’s a renderbull thing and not Deadline specific.

Is the vue file heavy, or does it have any large external references? Maybe the overhead of loading the vue file at startup for each frame might have something to do with it (though I wouldn’t expect it to more than double the expected render time).

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan,

The file is huge - 57,444,583 Poly’s! (though I’m going to Remove 50,000,000 worth of trees for now to get it through) - still would like to solve this mystery.

How do I render render from the Command Line again to the Renderbulls?

It does take ages to load the file - but not an hour.

Thanks,

Chris

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You would use the same executable and render arguments that Deadline is printing out. For example, open up a cmd prompt on a machine and run this (of course, you’ll probably have to edit the path to the vue file as necessary):

“C:\Program Files\e-on software\Vue 6 Infinite\Application\StandaloneRenderer.eon” -file “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Frantic Films\Deadline\slave\jobsData\tmp_vRCegD_.vue” -frame 30

Vue 7 (which we will support in Deadline 3.1) has added the option to specify a range instead of an individual frame, so increasing the tasks per frame would help reduce some of the overhead in the future.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan - i think it is a Vue issue, the standalone Renderbull render is equaly as slow.

Still, some development though, I had 2.5D Hybrid set for the motion blur, which is incompatible with save to disk (?!?), and I made things work by using the “Final” quality preset, which was below the edited “Broadcast” setting i was using.

Sooooo, in conclusion, Deadline is not the cause of the problem, thanks for your help though. It seems I need to upgrade to Vue 7 in the meantime to get things working a bit faster.

Thanks again,

Chris