Deadline looks like exactly what our new production will need and we would love to work it into the pipeline if at all possible.

I’m not sure…Īny help on this would be greatly appreciated. Layer Comps are however, scene-specific, so the submit-job dialogue in Deadline would require a dropdown menu of the available layer comps in the source Anime Project, which may be complicated to implement into the script. We were hoping that this would be an easy enough feature to implement to the Anime Studio Plugin Script as hopefully accessing Layer Comps from the Command Line should be covered in the Anime Studio API. It is however a function of the Batch Export function, which is almost identical, bar that and a couple of other minor options. ‘Render Only Layer Comp:’ is actually not an option in the main export dialogue in Anime Studio (so understandably it was overlooked). Layer Comps are selections made inside Anime Studio’s layer tree that allow each layer or combinations of layers to be separately exposed in the UI and crucially, to easily export separate layers to allow our After Effects compositing team to do their magic. This would be a crucial component in us choosing to use Deadline on this production. Every render option is catered for in the Anime Studio plugin bar one important one called ‘Render Only Layer Comp:’. in the event of us getting it to render from Anime properly, we have one further inquiry.Perhaps the latest Anime Studio is not supported as a Render Executable yet? We’re thinking this is not a problem with our use of deadline, as the Slave seems to communicate fine with the repository and processes / logs everything but never actually produces images. Unfortunately the output folder is always completely empty, and the scanner always tells us that every frame is missing. After a bit we’ve gotten it to process fine, render executable is recognized and every frame is processed without error. To keep things simple we’ve been testing on a single machine (repository and client apps). So far our tests using it with Anime Studio haven’t quite worked out.We’ll be using the latest version of Anime Studio (9.5) as well as After Effects CC. We’re new to Deadline but are hoping to utilize it on a new animated production for broadcast in the UK and Ireland starting in the coming months.

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