Minimum Render Time and PostJob Script

Deadline
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Hi,

We have some renders we know take over an hour. Some nodes were not finishing and saying they were done after 20-60 seconds. Until we have time to troubleshoot and put error checking in, we set Minimum Render Time to 120 seconds. That’s fine and dandy until it gets to our QT Preview PostScript that takes 30 seconds to complete successfully, but gets requeued continuously because its failing the Minimum Render Time test. Haha, can’t win!

Any ideas? Can an option be put in to Ignore Min/Max Render Time for PostJob scripts?

Thanks,
Paul
CafeFX

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Hey Paul,

We can definitely consider an option to have pre/post job scripts ignore the min/max render times, but this will likely have to wait until the release following Deadline 4.0 (ie: 4.1). In the meantime as a workaround, you could add the following to your post job script:

Sleep( 120000 )

Sure, it adds 2 minutes of wasted render time to the task, but in the grand scheme of things, that hopefully isn’t a big deal.

Cheers,

  • Ryan