Submitting Cinema 4D Jobs From The Monitor

Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog

In the Deadline Monitor, open the Cinema 4D 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 Cinema 4D specific options are:

  • Cinema 4D File: The Cinema 4D file to be rendered.
  • Frame List: The list of frames to render.
  • Task Group Size: The number of frames per task.
  • Threads To Use: The number of threads to use for rendering (specify 0 to use default).
  • Version: Select a version of Cinema 4D to render with.
  • Build: For Cinema 4D 10, force rendering in 32 bit or 64 bit.
  • Submit Cinema 4D Scene File: The Cinema 4D file selected will be submitted with the job.
  • Output Folder: The output directory of the files
  • Output Prefix: The filename prefix of the outputted files
  • Use default from scene: Selecting this will tell Deadline to use the default output folder and prefix from the scene file.

Step 3: Submit Your Job

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.