Allow for frame chunking at the application level about opencue HOT 5 CLOSED

How should I create a single layer to run only one task for an entire frame range - say for example I want the last layer of my job to run one process that consumes all the frames rendered in the previous layer to:

• generate a movie from rendered frames or
• publish frames or
• cat and bzip the frames for transfer

I guess I can:

• set the 'frame spec' to 1
• assign the 'postprocess' service to the layer
• hardcode the real frame range into the command before I hand it off to OpenCue

Is that the best approach for now?

Thanks

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Hi @donalm.
Yes, the approach you describe is the current best practice. Are you using outlines for the job submission? It is a little more manageable baking the command with frame range in the outline file, but as you point out still not ideal.

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I just started testing again with CueSubmit - my wee module for submitting via Outlines has suffered from bit rot but sure I'll get that running again in the next day or two.

Thanks @gregdenton - we're still at a fairly early/loose stage of testing so I'm not too stressed about a few rough edges at this stage.

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Might be some overlap here with #83

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These tokens exist now, added in #597

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