Frequently Asked Questions

Maintain complex Job hierarchies in a single Job file

Job Files (.sj files) can contain any number of Jobs. When the Job File is loaded, any dependencies between jobs within the file will be correctly maintained when the file is loaded, every time it is loaded, even though the jobs will have new IDs each time.

This is useful for creating a complex render that includes preparation or post-processing steps. For example, you could have a 3-D render, then run through a composite, then make a QuickTime movie from the composite frames, making sure that each job waits for the previous to be complete before beginning.

Because the IDs are changed each time, you can repeatedly submit the same file over and over and a new set of jobs will be created each time. This is another way you can "batch submit" a bunch of Jobs at once, even if you don't need to maintain dependencies between them.