If this PR is about to have chunk size dynamic for Baking job, it will be obsolete by #49 where it will be controlled by Profile/could be overridden by artist.

Would it be important to separate chunks/other JobInfo fields per render vs baking job (eg. have different chunk for render, different one for baking)? Currently it is not possible, not sure how the model in Setting would like for that.

If this PR is about to have chunk size dynamic for Baking job, it will be obsolete by #49 where it will be controlled by Profile/could be overridden by artist.

Actually - I think what the intent is.. is that if you were to write out a video file you want the chunk size to be infinitely large because multiple machines couldn't render out to the same file. Something tells me - that is what this is trying to solve.

If media has # in it - allow chunk size to be configurable.
If media does not have # it's a single file, and we assume multiple machines can't simultaneously write to.

To easily support that in an abstract plug-in we may need some way to identify that a job MUST be one task or not due to that. Like "singleTaskOnly" or "forceSingleTask" or whatever.

Actually - I think what the intent is.. is that if you were to write out a video file you want the chunk size to be infinitely large because multiple machines couldn't render out to the same file. Something tells me - that is what this is trying to solve.

Correct. Of course, having confugurable chunk size for baking sequences would be great. Possibly even Deadline Frame Dependencies, so baking can start right when each frame finishes. Just taking the same chunks as the render is easy and should already help quite a bit.

I am trying to solve very slow publishing of long highres shots. Sometimes, particullarly for episodic vfx, we have shots that are one, or two minutes long. Production gets gray hair when publish is on the farm one more hour just to produce baking mov.

I am trying to solve very slow publishing of long highres shots. Sometimes, particullarly for episodic vfx, we have shots that are one, or two minutes long. Production gets gray hair when publish is on the farm one more hour just to produce baking mov.

Valid use case - and has come up before. I think there was an epic description about that some time ago @antirotor? But definitely quite some dev work.

Closing in favor of #49