Hi all,
is it possible to “explode” a single task into a new job, i.e. resubmit a task with a different batch setting?
In my case I have a 2000+ frame shot, and I submit the job with a batch number of 40. I now noticed that some batches did not render properly, but e-queuing via deadline renders them fine.
Since all the other batches are fine, I’d like to re-submit each faulty task as a new job with a different batch number, so the 40 frames per task can now be split amongst the idle render slaves.
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
frank
Hey Frank,
There’s a couple things you can do here… When you change the number of Frames per Task on a Job, Deadline tries its hardest to be smart about it and keeps the Tasks that contain previously completed ranges. You can do this by right-clicking the Job and selecting “Modify Frame Range”. The catch is that as soon as a Task contains a single frame that wasn’t completed before, that whole Task will be re-rendered. So generally, this doesn’t work as well if you’re going from a small number of Tasks per Frame to a larger one, but if you’re shrinking down, as long as you use a divisor of the original frame range (ie, going from 50 to 1, 2, 5, 10, 25), you’re guaranteed not to re-render any frames that have completed.
Alternatively, you could explicitly resubmit the individual tasks as their own Jobs, and modify the frame range of those (as I described above), by right-clicking the Tasks in question and selecting “Resubmit Task”.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Thanks Jon. I shall try that next time.
Cheers,
frank