Output changes to another format automatically?

Deadline
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Hello, I am quite new here (and to Deadline 5.1) and hope my first question is not too stupid. :slight_smile:

I am rendering a Lightwave 3D 10.1-Scene with Fish-eye Cam at 4096x4096 pixels. While I had to test how to set up Deadline, I realised that 4 concurrent tasks are too much for my nodes (Xeon 5630, 24 GB), as memory usage goes to over 100% then. So I modified from 4 to 3 tasks, and that seems to work fine so far, but now the output is pcx-files. The files open with Photoshop and look still correct, so I will convert them to jpg later. But of course I would like to get jpg files directly. What went wrong? And is there a way to correct that without restarting the queue?

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Wow, that´s odd.

Just checked the output again and now it is jpgs again. 103 frames were rendered as “pcx”, now the farm is creating “jpg” again. Do I have to understand that?

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That’s some weird voodoo… :slight_smile:

One thing I can tell you is that with Nuke jobs, Deadline doesn’t touch the output file names, so that is really weird that the output format would change like that. If it happens again, please post a log from a task that produced the wrong output and we’ll have a look. To find logs for a specific task, right-click on that task in the Deadline Monitor and select Task Reports -> View Log Reports.

Cheers

  • Ryan