I hacked up this script because I was frustrated with rendering in the Nuke UI, tired of typing out command-line render commands, and our renderfarm wasn’t alive yet. I’m posting it because I bet there’s other people in the same situation and I hope it can ease your pain.

This script launches a number of command-line render instances in the background and captures their output in log files which are saved to the same directory as the Nuke script. You are now free to keep working in the UI and have your renders happen in the background. You are also free to to launch 8 command-line Nuke renderers and squeeze every last cycle out of your fancy 8-core überbox.

It works in Nuke5.0v2 on OS X. Maybe it works on other versions and platforms. If so, I’d love to hear about it.

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