[size=150]INSTALLATION INFORMATION[/size]
In the last couple Deadline builds we changed how Draft is installed and distributed – it should primarily reside in a Draft folder in the root of the Deadline repository. Slaves will now check their version of Draft against the repository and self-update their local copies if needed. This works similarly to our regular auto-updating for the Deadline binaries, but is done by the Draft plugin when it is loaded up by the Slave. As such, to update Draft, all you should need to do is extract the attached .zip file in the root of your Deadline Repository, and it will propagate to the slaves when needed. It is strongly recommended that you manually remove any old local Draft installs on the slaves to prevent any conflicts (such as in C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Deadline\bin\Draft)
Main changes in this version:
- Defaults used for H264 encoding have been updated
- H264 videos should no longer get mangled when using higher bitrates
- Added a function to apply QT-FastStart to quicktime files
Cheers,
- Jon