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CopyCat Training Jobs Using the Deadline Cloud for Nuke submitter

To use the Deadline Cloud for Nuke submitter to train CopyCat nodes, you will need:

  • A profile to submit to Deadline Cloud with
  • A Deadline Cloud farm and queue to submit to
  • A Deadline Cloud fleet with GPU-enabled workers associated with the queue you will be submitting to. For instructions on creating a service-managed fleet with GPU access, see Managing service-managed fleets.

Submit a job

To submit a CopyCat training job from Nuke to Deadline Cloud

  1. Create or open a Nuke Script containing a CopyCat node.
  2. Attach ground truth and input nodes to the CopyCat Node, and configure knobs on the node to desired values. See Foundry's documentation for details on using CopyCat.
  3. Save your Nuke file.
  4. From the top navigation bar, choose AWS Deadline. From the drop down menu, select Submit CopyCat Training to Deadline Cloud.
  5. Use the tabs in the dialog to customize your job.
  6. (Optional) To export a job's associated files to your job history directory without submitting it, choose Export bundle.
  7. Choose Submit and follow the prompts to send your job to Deadline Cloud.

Nuke CopyCat training-specific settings

The Job-specific settings tab has options specific to jobs created in Nuke. Submitter Interface

  • CopyCat Node - Select which CopyCat node to train by node name.
  • Use timeouts - Whether or not to use user configured timeouts.
  • Render task timeout - Maximum duration of each action. In the case of CopyCat, the training is a single action. Default is 6 days.
  • Setup timeout - Maximum duration of each action which sets up the job, such as scene load. Default is 1 day.
  • Teardown timeout - Maximum duration of action which tears down the setup. Default is 1 hour.
  • Include gizmos in job bundle - Whether or not to include gizmos in the job bundle.

For information about the other submitter tabs, see the AWS Deadline Cloud guide for using a submitter.