I saw “Updated Licensing Model (Less licenses now needed)” as a feature for Deadline 7 in the feature list sent out via email for the webinar. I hadn’t heard anythign about this. Can someone elaborate?
A couple things changed with how licensing works in Deadline 7.
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When running multiple slaves on the same machine, they now share a single license. Previously, you needed one license per slave.
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Slaves now only require a license when rendering, so idle slaves will return their license.
Cheers,
Ryan