Nuke render is really slow

Deadline
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I just installed the Nuke submission script for OS X and got it working but the renders are really slow. A simple dissolve of some text outputting to TIF frames was at least 25 times slower since I had to cancel it after 20 minutes and should only take a minute max.

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Open a terminal on the same mac machine that produces the slow renders and try rendering the same nuke file from the command line. I imagine it would look something like this:

/Applications/Nuke5.2v2/Nuke5.2v2.app/Contents/MacOS/Nuke5.2v2 -V -x "/path/to/file.nk" 1,1

Of course, set the Nuke executable path correctly (remember to point to the unix executable, not the .app folder), and set the path to the nuke file correctly. In the example above, 1,1 means that I’m rendering frames 1 to 1. If you were to render frames 1 to 5, you would use 1,5

The goal of this test is to see if the renders are still slow outside of Deadline. Let us know the results.

Cheers,

  • Ryan