Frame Fixer Network Rendering Guide

Submitting Frame Fixer render jobs to Deadline

Frame Fixer jobs can be submitted from the Deadline Monitor.

In the Deadline Monitor, open the Frame Fixer Submission Dialog from the Submit menu.

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).
Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
Group: The group that your job is submitted to.
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 Frame Fixer specific options are:

Input Image Sequence: The sequence of image files to check for frames that need to be fixed.
Automatically Determine The Frames To Fix: Select this option to have Frame Fixer automatically determine which frames in the specified sequence need to be fixed.
Manually Specify The Frames: Select this option to specify the frames that Frame Fixer should fix.
Frame List: The list of frames to render, only available if Manually Specify The Frames is selected.

Advanced options are:

Threads: The number of threads to use for rendering.
Interpolation Method: The interpolation method to use.
Vector Detail: Controls the density of the optical flow field, or how many positions to track across the neighboring frames.
Smoothing Iterations: Controls how many smoothing passes are run over the flow field's motion vectors.
Global Smoothness: Controls the amount of smoothing applied to larger areas of movement in the image.
Error Threshold: Differences in pixel values below this threshold are ignored to prevent noise or grain in the images from being interpreted as motion.
Local Smoothness: Controls how the smoothing affects the finer details.
Block Size: Controls how the optical flow algorithm finds features in the image.
Extreme Filtering: Turn on Extreme Filtering for a much sharper result, but this will take a lot longer to compute.
Correct Luminance: Turn on this option to equalize the brightness of the two neighboring images before calculating the optical flow field.
Use Alpha Mattes: Whether to use the alpha channel of the images to help lock on to the edges of objects when calculating the optical flow field.

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.