In my rendering section i can see that each frame is distributed to separate pc.Which means if there are 10 frames for rendering,1 st frame will submit to Main PC and 2nd frame is submit to 2nd PC.How can i set each frame to submit to the both pc for rendering ?
Once each Worker finishes rendering the frame they’ll start the next frame in the list.
You can increase the size of your tasks to evenly split the work from the beginning. So to follow your example of 10 frames for 2 machines you’d set the frames per task to 5 which will create 2 tasks of 5 frames each.
Hi
Thank you for the answer.Can you share the settings screenshot or can you clear out my screenshot ?
I have 30 frames and two machines.How to set it up ?
Sure! Since you’ve got 30 frames and two computers and you’d like to create two tasks you can set your ‘Frames Per Task’ to 15 like this:
However, since 0-30 is 31 frames we get 3 tasks:
That’s not an issue for Cinema 4D jobs when you’ve got ‘Use Batch Plugin’ enabled since Deadline keeps Cinema 4D running between tasks. With that in mind you could just as easily set your frames per task to 1, resulting in 31 tasks that will be distributed between your two Workers.
The task panel will look like this in that case:
Let us know if you’ve got any questions!
Sir,
Thank you for your reply. But there is a small confusion regarding the subject.
Please see this screenshot , in this we can see that
FRAME 0 ASSIGNED TO Main-PC
and
FRAME 1 ASSIGNED TO PC-02
I would like to assign my SINGLE FRAME TO BOTH PC.
Which means if frame 1 is rendering i want to render with Main-PC and PC-02
( a single frame is rendering with the help of two pc)
Oh I understand, sorry about that!
To do that you’ll have to break each frame up into separate tiles (effectively cutting the frame into a left half and a right half) so that each Worker can work on that halves. You’d then have to stich the output back together using Draft or something similar.
I’m not sure that would be worth the effort though, what’s the issue with the Workers as-is?
If C4D has a shared work mode let me know and I’ll look into adding a feature request, though I can’t share any details about the roadmap.
oh ok I understood regarding this. I asked you Because my 2 pc’s spec is different.so for one frame in one pc it tooks 3 minutes and same one frame on another pc it tooks 5 minutes. May be this must be depends on network speed and pc specs . Ok . Here i have 2 questions
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My two pc is connected with a switch having 1GBPS speed.Which switch are you recommended for direct connection and rendering?
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Please see the screenshot.Its a project submission for rendering from software Cinema4D with arnold render engine.In this section i cant able to render with GPU.Because after submitting the project to the deadline,CPU usage shows 100% for both pcs.And GPU usage shows 1 % or 0 % .
How can i set for GPU rendering ? And please note that there is an option in arnold render settings for setting CPU to GPU.Me already set with GPU.
- The network speed will only affect how long C4D takes to read and write files. If you’re concerned about network throttling, take a look at the render log to see if there’s a major time difference to load and write files.
For only two Workers your switch should be fine; we don’t have any recommendations on networking.
- From our docs on Cinema4D the GPU affinity override settings are only available when you’re rendering with Redshift. Otherwise enabling GPU rendering will be handled in the scene’s render settings.
If you’re not seeing GPU usage, try rendering the scene manually to be sure your Arnold render settings are getting used outside of Deadline.
Let us know how it goes!