This is the seventh revision release for Deadline 10.0. It fixes a few bugs that have been reported during the 10.0 release cycle and adds some minor improvements, including support for After Effects CC 2018, Media Encoder CC 2018, and Eddy for Nuke. Draft has also been upgraded version 1.6.8. This release also includes a security fix for the AWS Portal Asset Server. More information about this fix can be found in this Security Notice.
The center of your pipeline:
AWS Thinkbox Deadline is a hassle-free hybrid administration and compute management toolkit for Windows, Linux, and mac OS based render farms, supporting more than 80 different content creation applications out of the box. Deadline provides flexibility and a wide range of compute management options, giving you the freedom to easily access any combination of on-premises or cloud-based resources for your rendering and processing needs.
Smart render management:
Deadline integrates with AWS using AWS Portal, a collective set of Deadline features that enables you to more easily extend your on-premises rendering to AWS. Once your rendering pipeline is integrated with AWS, you can scale rendering workloads to hundreds, or even thousands of cores in minutes, and you can also scale down just as quickly, providing incredible compute elasticity and cost control.
Optimize your on-premises farm:
Optimize your compute resources with Deadline. Save time and money by launching multiple instances or running concurrent tasks, as well as effectively managing your power consumption by shutting down render nodes that are not in use.
Get more rendering capacity by seamlessly adding the compute from idle workstations to your farm and get the most from your studio hardware with a robust render manager to best utilize your existing compute resources.
Scale your studio:
Deadline integrates with AWS to provide you with the flexibility to seamlessly extend your compute capacity to the cloud, regardless of your current render farm setup.
Scaling to AWS provides you with incredible compute elasticity, cost control, and the confidence that your renders will be completed on time. You can also purchase flexible third-party licenses for cloud nodes which assist in cost-effective burst rendering – 24/7 – through the AWS Thinkbox Marketplace.
