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Resubmit backburner job using only failed server's frames

Resubmit backburner job using only failed server's frames

Occasionally one server on a farm will freak out due to some missing texture maps or plugins or whatever. (Max has a tendency to reset itself sometimes and all paths get blown out.  Happens to me about once every two weeks).

 

So I will end up with 550 good frames but 50 bad ones.

 

I have to manually look through the list of frames to see which ones where rendered by the bad server and then tediously type up a comma delimited list of those frames so backburner can re-render those items.

 

 

this could be made much easier in two ways:

 

1) Allow an export function in Backburner where you choose a Server(s) and it will export a comma delimited list to a test file with all the frames rendered by that server.  That list could be copy/pasted into max as a new backburner submission or just done as a Duplicate backburner job and paste the item into the frames to render.

 

2) The more elegant solution would be to have a right-click option in backburner that lets you right click a server name in the Task area and choose Re-render this server's frames.  It would automatically create a duplicate backburner job set to render only the frames associated with that server.

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Kelly_Michels
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Anonymous
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My procedure on correcting frames on a particular 'bad' server, (usually due to insufficient access rights to textures, proxies etc) is;

 

1. On completed job, go to task tab and sort by server. Scroll to server with incorrect frames and note down (or camera phone) frame numbers

2. Right click on completed job and click 'Clone Job'

3. Right click on new cloned job (It will have the same name) and click 'Edit Settings'

4. On 'Frame Sequence', double click to 'Frames'

5. On 'First Frame' and 'Last Frame', delete the value

6. On 'Frames', enter your noted frames separated with commas. Press OK

7. Monitor may close. Re-open it and reconnect

8. Right click on the cloned job and press 'Restart Job'. Press OK

 

Backburner should now only re-render the incorrect frames.

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