Thank you for participating in the Deadline 8.0 Beta program!
For ultimate scalability, Deadline 8 introduces Usage Based Licensing, which will work with both local and cloud-based farms alongside existing permanent and temporary licenses. Usage is tracked per minute, and can be purchased and managed round-the-clock via Thinkbox’s e-commerce portal. Additionally, the store will host on-demand per-minute licenses for select third party content creation applications and plugins
Deadline 8 also adds a Proxy Server application that allows users to securely connect to and interact with remote office and cloud-based render farms over public Internet without the need for a virtual private network (VPN). An updated user interface with enhanced interactivity improves the Monitor experience, while the new sandboxed Python environment facilitates additional rendering and event stability.
New beta builds will be posted to the Deadline 8 Builds Forum (forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/viewforum.php?f=209), so please subscribe to it if you haven’t done so already so that you are notified when a new release is available.
Please use this Discussion Forum (forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/viewforum.php?f=211) to post bug reports.
We look forward to your feedback!