Render Farm Costs

What it does

Farm jobs accumulate render seconds per chunk; on job completion cost rolls to the output PEID and appears on the oversight-only Render cost page.

How to read it

• Queue Cost column - visible to producers, finance, admin (not plain artists).
• Render cost page - top jobs and shots by spend.
• Job detail - PEID and cost card for one job.

What to do

Wranglers retry failed chunks from the queue; producers watch spend on hot shots. Storage half of PEID-3 is separate (see PEID-3 Cost guide).

Overview

Who sees render cost, queue column, and per-shot rollups.

Steps

1. Submit from DCC with ROP/output paths the workers can read.
2. Watch the scoped queue (My Work / My Shows / Whole Farm).
3. Retry failed chunks; escalate stuck jobs to wrangler.
4. Review render cost on hot shots if you have oversight access.

Gotchas

• Workers must read the same NAS/Tailscale paths as artists.
• Render cost appears after job completion, not at queue time.

Cross-links

• Render Farm Overview - see Help Center
• PEID-3 Cost per Element - see Help Center