Modify frame range

Deadline
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Hi Ryan

Is it possible to modify, on the monitor, the “Every Nth frame”?
If I send a job to deadline to render every 5 frames, how can I change on the monitor to render every frames or every 2 frames?

Thanks,
Mario

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Hi Mario,

If, for example, you wanted your frame range to be 1-100, every 5th frame, you can specify the following in the frame list:

1-100x5

This means frames 1 to 100, every 5th frame.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Ha! Ok…
But that is not very clear, can’t you make a field on the “Modify job frame range” window, where you could specify the “Every Nth frame”?
You could make it for 3.1 beta2 :smiley:

Thanks
Mario

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We really should just document this better. :slight_smile:

The formatting for the frame list can be much more complicated then just a simple n-m range with a frame step. For example, say you wanted to render every 10th frame, then every 2nd frame, then the remaining frames (with no duplicates), you could specify this:

1-100x5,1-100x2,1-100

Deadline will order the frames as
1,6,11,16,21,26…
3,5,7,9,13,15,17,19,23…
2,4,8,10,12,14,18…

In this case, having an Nth frame numeric box doesn’t really help. We’d rather keep the system as flexible as possible, which simply having the frame list box allows us to do.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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ah, very handy! this answers a feature request someone had a while back for being able to test the first, middle, last frames, then run through in sequence. clever deadline…

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Yes, please add this to the documentation, it’s been 14 years now!

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Hey - we may need to look at improving the discoverability but this is covered in the docs at Submitting Jobs — Deadline 10.1.23.6 documentation

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