Rendering a Nuke script externally using Windows Command Prompt

Welcome!
In this tutorial learn how to render your Nuke composition from Window's command line without the need of opening Nuke. This will safe computer resources and let you render multiple files and write nodes at once, very useful if you don't have a render manager setup yet.

[@ronydey2696]

great tut's really needed

[@boostvfx7402]

Thanks Rony...yeah I know I use it all the time haha!

[@ronydey2696]

@@boostvfx7402 SIR PLEASE MAKE A COMP ON , ....1. DE AGEING AND
2. TATOO ADDING NOT REMOVAL SOME CHARACTER WHILE GYM STECHER BACK OVER NUKE SIR REALLY NEEDED

[@martinmacias9123]

thanks uncle for all

[@boostvfx7402]

So nice of you

[@SlayerAndroidX51]

I have a question. Can this work to render a .mov? Or it only works to render sequences...

[@boostvfx7402]

Yeah it works for both. I'm currently rendering an EXR sequence fro color grade and a .mov for client revision. Just change the saved format to .mov and should work just fine.

[@SlayerAndroidX51]

@@boostvfx7402 i tried to do the same that you did on the video, but everytime i ran it, i got an error, "theres no such file or directory", and the folders name has an underscore, and i think that cmd is taking it as a space or something. anyway, i will look more information to see if i can solve this. please keep bringing us this kind of tutorial, this is the kind of information we need.

[@boostvfx7402]

@@SlayerAndroidX51 Thanks Giancarlo. Not sure if underscores can cause the issue, but I just google it and I think is a good idea to scape that character with this symbol before the underscore ^ Thank might work. also try to place the nuke script in other folder just to check if that is the problem...also sure I'll keep posting everything I know for sure

[@whoisandy]

How can I submit +100 Nuke scripts at once and have them render one at a time? On mac, there's RenderQ from Andoru. It is a super simple drag and drop applet. Is there anything similar on Windows?

[@lukasrooney9194]

on windows you create a .bat file, so basically instead of typing this directly in command line you open a simple text editor type out a line for each render and then save as a .bat file, then you simply find the .bat file in your folder and double click it, windows will now feed that to the command line and render through all the lines, one after the other.

[@remcodebont8878]

How does this work when i have scripts stored on my network drive? for example Z:/projects/scripts/script.nk

[@ACES-BRAZIL]

\\192.168.1.10\path...
\\user\path...

[@boostvfx7402]

Thanks ACES BRAZIL!