Fusion Network Rendering Guide

Submitting Fusion render jobs to Deadline

Fusion jobs can be submitted from within Fusion or from the Deadline Monitor.

From the script menu in Fusion, choose “SubmitToDeadline."

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.
Priority: Your job's priority (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
Machine Limit: The maximum number of machines that can render your job at one time (specify 0 for no limit).
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).
Submit As Suspended: Submit your job in the suspended state.
Delete When Complete: You job is automatically deleted after it completes.

The Fusion specific options are:

Frame List: The list of frames to render.
Render First And Last Frames First: The first and last frame of the flow/comp will be rendered first, followed by the remaining frames in the sequence. Note that the Frame List above is ignored if this box is checked (the frame list is pulled from the flow/comp itself).
Frames Per Task: The number of frames per task.
Build: The build to force.
Proxy: The proxy level to use.
High Quality Mode: Whether or not to render with high quality.
Check Saver Output: If checked, Deadline will check all savers to ensure they have saved their image file.
Auto Job Timeout: If auto job timeout should be enabled.
Submit Comp/Flow File: The Fusion file will be submitted with the job.
Command Line Mode: Render using separate command line calls instead of keeping the scene loaded in memory between tasks. Using this feature disables the High Quality, Proxy, and Check Saver Output options.

Click the OK button to submit the job to Deadline.