Submitting After Effects Jobs From The Monitor

• 1 Submitting After Effects Jobs From The Monitor
  • 1.1 Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog
  • 1.2 Step 2: Set Your Submission Options
  • 1.3 Step 3: Submit Your Job

Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog

In the Deadline Monitor, open the After Effects Submission Dialog from the Submit menu.

Step 2: Set Your Submission Options

The general Deadline options are:

• Job Name: The name of your job (if left blank, it will default to "Untitled").
• Comment: A simple description of your job (can be left blank).
• Department: Your department (can be left blank).
• Category: The category the job belongs to (default is "None").
• Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
• Use Machines In Pool Only: Only the machines in the specified pool will render your job.
• Task Timeout: The number of minutes a slave has to render a task for this job before it requeues it (specify 0 for no limit).
• Priority: Your job's priority (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
• Enable Task Timeout: Whether or not to use the timeout given.
• Concurrent Tasks: The number of tasks a slave should dequeue for this job at once.
• Limit Tasks To Slave's Task Limit: Whether or not to limit the number of tasks the slave rendering this job can concurrently do.
• Machine Limit: The maximum number of machines that can render your job at one time (specify 0 for no limit).
• Machine list: A list of slave machines that is either blacklist or a whitelist.
• Machine is a blacklist: Whether or not the machine is a blacklist, if not it is a whitelist.
• Limit Groups: The limit groups that your job requires.
• Job Dependencies: Jobs that your job is dependent on.
• Submit As Suspended: Submit your job in the suspended state.
• On Job Complete: The action to perform on the jobs completion. Options are Nothing, Delete, or Archive.

The After Effects specific options are:

• Project File: The After Effects project file to be rendered.
• Comp To Render: The comp to be rendered.
• Frame List: The list of frames to render.
• Task Group Size: The number of frames per task.
• Use Multi-Process Rendering: Whether or not to tell After Effects to use multi-process rendering.
• Version: The version of After Effects to use for rendering.
• Submit After Effects Project File: The After Effects file selected will be submitted with the job.

The Memory Management options are:

• Enable Memory Management: Whether or not to use the memory management options.
• Image Cache %: The maximum amount of memory after effects will use to cache frames.
• Max Memory %: The maximum amount of memory After Effects can use overall.

Step 3: Submit Your Job

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.