Hi,
not sure if this is a setup thing on our side or a feature request but…
if I right click a job and do:
job_output->view_output->myframes.####.dpx
Then I get a little window pop up, and I have to click on a frame number, and then click view_image. (using djv)
We then see the file sequence.
is it possible to avoid the little pop up window and the extra two clicks?
Rupert
Hi Rupert,
We do it that way because not all image viewers support accepting a frame sequence. That’s why we bring up that dialog for chunked tasks (more than one frame per task).
However, you guys could write a job right-click script that passes the image sequence to djv, and then set up a keyboard shortcut so that you only ever need “one click” to play back your output frames. Here are some links to the Deadline 6 docs for this (you can find the same pages in the v7 docs, but those are offline so I can’t link directly to them):
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-6-scripting/
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … ript_Menus
Cheers,
Ryan
There is also a shortcut workflow for checking out the main output of a job.
Go to Tools > Options > Monitor Options and look at “Task List” group of controls.
There, you can set it up like this:
*“Rendering Task Double-click Behavior” : Connect To Slave Log
*“Completed Task Double-click Behavior” : View Image
*“Failed Task Double-click Behavior” : View Reports
*Press OK.
Now if you double-click in the Task list on a task that has finished, it will open the main output sequence’s frame in the default viewer for its file type. If the task is still rendering, it will open the Slave Log instead. If the Task has failed, it will show you the Reports so you can see why it failed…
Of course, if the output has multiple sequences in the output list, you still have to go through the job right click menu to select which one you want.
ok thanks for the info!
…unless the job has a chunk size greater than 1.