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Batch Rendering - Batch R ender Dialog 205
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Click the Submit button to send all the Batch
Render camera tasks to Backburner for network
rendering to all the workstations that are
running Backburner Server.
If you are running the Backburner Queue
Monitor, you’ll see all the camera tasks listed as
rendering jobs in the Job sec tion of the Queue
Monitor .
Inter face
Add—Adds a new rendering task to the queue,
using the default settings. By default, a new task is
set to render the active viewport. To set it to render
a particular camera, choose the camera from the
Camer a drop-down list.
Duplicate—Adds a copy of the highlighted
rendering task to the queue.
All rendering parameters that were part of the
original task are duplicated for the new task.
Delete—Deletes the highlighted rendering task.
No warning appears to confirm deletion and you
cannot undo a deletion.
[Ta sk Queue]—This is a listing of all the camera
tasks that have been chosen for batch rendering.
The task queue consists of eight columns that
show all the parameters that have been set for a
particular camera task. You can control which
tasks are rendered by toggling the check boxes in
the list.
Selec ted Batch Ren der Parameter group
By default, any tasks you’ve designated for b atch
rendering use the current Time Output and
Output Size parameters f rom the Render Scene
dialog (page 3–2).
For example, if the Output Size settings on the
Render Scene dia log shows that you have a Time
Output settings of Single and an of 800 width and
600 height, w hen you add a camera, its Selected
Batch Render Parameters will mimic those
settings. Likewise, if the Render Scene dialog has a
Time Output set to Range and fr ame 0 to 25, the
Frame Start and Frame End settings on the Batch
Render dialog will default to those Time Output
settings.
This group gives you access to changing those
default parameters.
Over r ide Pr eset—When on, you can override any
of the default settings for the hig hlighted task via
the Frame Start, Frame End, Width, Height, and
Pixel Aspect setti ngs. Default=off.
Fr ame S t art —The first frame to be rendered for
the hig hlighted task. The default setting for
this parameter m atches the Time Output group
settings on the Common panel of the Render
Scene dialog .