Blender Render + Deadline reviewable on Kitsu

Thanks! I’ll definitely try to get in to that discussion.
Going to need to prepare all the info and pictures, but it’s going to take some time since I’m testing multiple things at once.

Thanks for all the help!

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Hey guys, not sure if this was resolved in the latest iterations but I had the same issues:

  • Blender rendering through Deadline with AOVs turned on will run, but creating a review through deadline will fail.
  • The same error, basically FFMPEG telling that the proper channels are missing and aborting.

So i took some time and found that exr’s would normally have a default layer, which represents the beauty. FFMPEG also refers to that “default” layer if no decoding layer is flag is provided.
But Blender’s regular output has no such channel to be written to.

So the solution to have reviews work then is to allow one beauty output to be connected into a channel that has simply no name.

This will revert in the exr to “default” and run correctly.

The downside is that the review’s burnin needs some tweak as well to pick up the correct output.
Other then that it works for now, and i hope it helps to improve !

Cheers
Kai