Biggest expansion to reporting and performance capabilities yet; detailed cost tracking for VFX studios working across multiple shows and clients.
Los Angeles, CA --
PipelineFX, creator of the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, has announced the release of Qube! 6.5. New tools for job tagging, configuration, and reporting round out Qube!’s most feature-rich offering to date; while improvements to Smart Farming functionality promote a simpler path to pipeline intelligence.
During this development cycle, PipelineFX tackled two areas that will bring immediate results to their customers. The first: detailed cost reporting for firms that manage rendering across multiple shows and clients. The second: an increased ability for larger studios to minimize supervisor downtime and easily re-configure their render farm as situations and usage rates shift.
“In this time of industry turmoil, understanding the real economics of visual effects has become more important than ever,” stated Richard Lewis, CEO of PipelineFX. “Tools like cost accounting and the ability to Smart Farm actionable intelligence from your render pipeline offer proven methods for accurately assessing and correcting inefficiencies.”
“With Qube! 6.5's new features, we will be able to track our farm utilization down to the shot level,” said Tony Pelle, Director of Production Technology for Rainmaker Entertainment. “Insightful data on job efficiency is what our artists and supervisors need to keep our productions on track. And with less maintenance downtime to look forward to, we’ll have more time to refine the render farm to meet the ever-changing demands of our productions.”
New Qube! 6.5 Features:
- “Show, Shot, Sequence” and user-definablejob tags – provides detailed insight into how farmusage rates are mapped to projects and/or clients
- Supervisor configuration re-read – global resources, configurations and more can occur without a supervisorreload, leading to an increase in uptime
- App-Finder – allows a job to be distributed across mixed OS farms simultaneously
- Cumulative time tracking – total job time spent on the farm in CPU-seconds can be revealed byjobs, frames, and retries (even across varying numbers of CPUs)
- Updated application support – Qube! 6.5 now works with Autodesk 2014 products, and supports MaxwellCooperative Rendering with “resume rendering” support
“Show me inefficiency and I’ll show you a cost center,” added Lewis. “With Qube! 6.5, organizations of all types and sizes can trade their money faucet for a pipeline that is clean and responsive.”
Customers currently on subscription can download version 6.5 immediately from the PipelineFX ftp site. Please contact support@pipelinefx to request a 6.5 license.
Source: Pipeline FX
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
