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Sending jobs to Backburner from Maya

Sending jobs to Backburner from Maya - Backburner Tutorial

From the course: Learning Autodesk Backburner

Sending jobs to Backburner from Maya

Now once we have our project set to a network path, we can go ahead and load our scenes and render as much as we want. So let's go ahead and just open a scene. Now, notice how when I actually open a scene and my project is set, it already goes to this network path, which is really important. And so I just want to go ahead and open up Bldg_Shot03. And just open it up and no I don't want to save. And there's my shot. I already have my rendered layer already set up. And so everything is pretty much ready to go. Now all I have to do is basically just render. So in Maya, we now have a new option on the Render menu, called Create Backburner Job. Let's go ahead and go into that. And, it says, before I create my back-burner job, do we want to save? Well, I just loaded it. So, I don't need to save. So, I'm just going to hit ignore. And, it brings up a really nice menu here. Now, we can give this a job name, which is basically that file that gets saved on the disk. If we want, I can give it…

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