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Thinkbox Deadline 5 (subscription)


 

Thinkbox Deadline 5 (subscription)

The hassle-free administration and rendering toolkit for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-based render farms. After 1 year, this price applies to continue the maintenance agreement. While on maintenance ALL support and upgrades are free.
List Price: $45.00
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Product Code: TS-DEADLINE-SUB


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Deadline 5 Overview

Deadline 5 is the latest version of Thinkbox Software's render farm management system. It offers a variety of work flow improvements, helping you streamline your production pipeline. Updated Monitor options allow artists to save their layout presets and the new slave availability filter helps them troubleshoot their jobs faster. Farm administration is made easier with increased security for authenticating Deadline users and streamlined configuration options improve system roll out times.

New Features

Auto Configuration:

Simplify farm administration by configuring slave settings like the repository path and license server in a single location. If the repository path or license server changes, just update the auto configuration settings instead of applying the changes to each machine individually.

New User System: 

Administration features are optionally password protected and all modifications to jobs, tasks and slaves are logged and easily traceable. Deadline’s Access Control System prevents users from inadvertently disrupting other rendering tasks. Additionally, administrators can prevent user impersonation by configuring Deadline to use the system user as the Deadline user for even greater security.

Slave Availability Filter: 

Allow users to quickly diagnose a failed job. Click on the job to filter the slave list and display those slaves available to render the selected job. This feature factors in Pools, Groups, White/Blacklisted slaves, and any Limit Groups the job uses.

Flexible licensing model:

Bump up the size of your farm to handle larger loads during crunch time. Our Surge Rental Program makes it easy for users to quickly increase the capacity of their render farm on a weekly basis at affordable rates.

Event plug-ins: 

Create plug-ins to have Deadline update in-house pipeline tools such as databases when jobs start and finish rendering. Write custom scripts to submit jobs to the farm or to perform custom pre/post rendering tasks as the job is rendered. All scripts can make use of Deadline’s Iron Python script-based SDK, resulting in endless possibilities.

Statistic Improvements: 

Increased accuracy for slave and repository statistics when specifying any given time frame. These statistics can now be displayed in a new detailed graphing system that offers improved controls for viewing and saving graph images to disk.

Remote Mode:

This feature allows companies with multiple facilities to improve performance and latency when controlling and managing massive global render farms remotely.

Deadline Mobile:

Updated for iPhone and Now Android: makes it easy to keep tabs on your render farm by letting you monitor your Deadline jobs from anywhere. With the simple touch of a screen, you can view your render jobs in real time and check on their status within seconds.

Feature Set

Rock-steady Operation:

Deadline’s unique architecture removes the need for a centralized manager application by using File Sharing to manage the farm. As long as your server machine is running, Deadline® is running.

Intuitive User Interface:

Built with your creativity in mind, Deadline’s UI has evolved in response to extensive feedback from artists. Instead of web pages, mysterious elite terminology or strange multi-platform UI widgets, there is a single, integrated Monitor UI.

For job submission, Deadline® offers integrated submission dialogs for 3ds Max, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Composite, Fusion, Generation, Houdini, Lightwave, Maya, Modo, Nuke, RealFlow, Rhino, Softimage, and Vue, providing a comfortable native environment for cross-application tasks.

Supported Software:

Deadline supports over 40 different rendering packages out of the box. See the Supported Software page in the Deadline documentation for more information.

Customizable and Scriptable:

With its Python based plug-in api, studios can customize the out of the box plug-ins and scripts to suit their individual pipelines, or create custom plug-in support in-house applications. Event plug-ins can be created to trigger events like updating pipeline tools when jobs are submitted or finish rendering. Finally, job scripts can be created to perform operations when a job starts, when a job finishes, and before and after each task is rendered.

Flexible Job Scheduling:

Use numeric job priorities, machine groups and pools, and job-specific machine lists to explicitly control distribution of rendering resources among multiple departments. Limits allow you to handle both limited license plug-ins and render packages, while job dependencies and scheduling allow you to control when your jobs will begin rendering.

Notifications

Deadline can be configured to notify users of job completion or failure through either an automatic instant message notification or an e-mail notification to any number of watching users.

Administrators can also configure Deadline to notify them with information about Power Management, stalled slaves, licensing issues, and other issues that may arise on the farm.

QuickTime Support:

Install QuickTime on your slaves to create QuickTime movies from your own rendered frames. As an alternative, Deadline® also allows users to create QuickTime movies with Fusion.

Tile Rendering:

Split up large frames into smaller pieces and distribute them over your render farm. Deadline® allows for single frames and frame sequences to be tile rendered. Available for 3ds Max, Maya, XSI, Modo, and Rendition.

Easy Installation and Upgrade Deployment:

Deadline® has gone through rigorous analysis to make the installation and configuration process smooth and efficient. A detailed document provides easy, step-by-step instructions explaining the various components that will be installed. In addition, Deadline has the ability to auto-upgrade the whole render farm from a centralized deployment–an incredible time-saver for large render farms.

Auto Configuration allows studios to efficiently increase the size of their farm by removing the need to configure each new slave individually. The Repository Path, License Server, and additional settings can be configured in a single location, and broadcasted to the slaves when they start up.

Remote Control and Farm Administration:

Start, stop and restart Deadline® slave remote instances (as well as the remote machine on which it is running) from within Deadline® Monitor, or execute arbitrary command lines (applications, command line operations or batch files) on a single or group of remote machines to rollout software or install updates.

In addition, Deadline® integrates seamlessly with VNC, Remote Administrator, Remote Desktop Connection and Apple Remote Desktop to provide effortless remote access to desktops across the render farm. Finally, Remote Mode can be used to improve performance when connecting the Deadline® Monitor to the Repository over a VPN connection

Access Control and Auditing

While full access is granted for all users to modify their own jobs, Deadline´s Access Control System prevents users from inadvertently disrupting other jobs. An optional password protected Super User mode allows for global network administration. Super Users can configure the types of actions available to each user on their jobs–including which individual job properties users can modify after a job as been submitted.

Any command that affects a job, slave or task is logged along with the originating user name and machine. This allows everyone, including project managers and supervisors, to track changes and troubleshoot issues with confidence. It also encourages responsibility and cooperation on the part of Deadline® users.

Reduced Energy Footprint:

Save on energy consumption, power and cooling costs with Deadline’s Power Management, a feature that shuts down idle machines and starts them back up when needed. This feature is available for render farms with machines that support WakeOnLan.

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