Submitting Shake Script into QMaster
by Mark Hatch
on
Oct 27, 2009 at 3:06:17 am
The QMaster tool appears very simple on the surface, however, when I add a Shake script, it opens up Batch Monitor and sits there forever saying "Processing: Preprocessing". I've left it that way for hours and nothing seems to be happening. Activity monitor shows nothing. When I render from Shake, all 8 cores are screaming. I only have one fileout node in the script. Maybe I am missing something incredibly easy. I have tried this on 5 computers now, all 8 cores. I have submitted them to the local cluster and to other clusters, but to no avail. I have tried this several times in several ways.
Am I missing something here? I must be. We are on XSan, but I can't imagine anything is wrong with that. I disabled the UNC (Universal Naming Convention). I've searched manuals over and over and have been on more forums than I can remember. Anyone understand what I may be doing wrong?
Re: Submitting Shake Script into QMaster by Mark Hatch on Oct 27, 2009 at 6:06:56 am
Okay, I figured out that I had a mistake in my script. Anyway to somehow check that before I try to render it out? Now, I've got it rendering with QMaster, but it is having errors all over the place when I try to do a quicktime file. Anyway around that?
Re: Submitting Shake Script into QMaster by Aaron Marine on Nov 20, 2009 at 10:33:49 am
from what i understand, you cannot do it directly in qmaster. when they were doing it at NAB a couple years ago they were doing it through command line within shake and having it sent out to qmaster to be rendered over the linked systems
