So this is an old problem but is back in Deadline 7 too. IF we render a 3ds Max job or anything else and then render a Nuke job it takes 10-30x longer. So prior to rendering a nuke job I have to manually tell all of the slaves to restart. Then they all render great. I’m open to theories and ideas to test.
Do you get this speed hit even if you trigger the nuke render from a command line?