Backburner Preferences

Backburner Manager

Select the hostname of the Backburner Manager system that handles background jobs submitted by the workstation.

Hide Job Description

Enable to hide Backburner job descriptions.

Group Burn Tasks option

Prioritize processing speed over feedback, prioritize feedback, or let the Backburner manager decide. Overrides the Group Task in Blocks option in Backburner Monitor.

Job Priorities

Wire Priority field

Sets the priority for transfers from and to this workstation, from 0 (highest priority) to 100 (lowest).

Cache Priority field

Sets the priority for caching imported media on this workstation, from 0 (highest priority) to 100 (lowest).

Proxies Priority field

Sets the priority for generating proxies media on this workstation, from 0 (highest priority) to 100 (lowest).

Export Priority field

Sets the priority for exporting clips from this workstation, from 0 (highest priority) to 100 (lowest).

Note: Be careful when setting new values or you might end up with a system trying to transfer frames before they are rendered.

Burn Priority field

Sets the priority for renderings jobs, from 0 (highest priority) to 100 (lowest).

Server Groups

Backburner Group

Specifies a server group (a preset group of render nodes) used to process jobs submitted by the application. By default, Backburner Manager assigns a job to all available render nodes capable of processing it. If you have a dedicated group of render nodes for processing jobs, set the value to the name of the render node group.

On Completion

On Completion option

Set what happens once a job completes. This action happens after the number of days set in the Delay field. This setting overrides the same preference set in Backburner Monitor.

Delay

Define the delay, in days, prior to executing the action specified in the On Completion setting.