To view the status of your render job, open the Deadline Monitor application. This program allows you to track and manage jobs that have been submitted to the render farm.
Do not be alarmed if the interface looks overwhelming at first. For most users, you only need to pay attention to a few key sections to check whether your job has been successfully submitted and to monitor its progress.
If we focus on each section separately, you will see that the interface is not as difficult as it may first appear. In the top-left panel, you will find the list of submitted jobs, including the one you have just sent to the render farm.
For example, you may see a job called “TEST NUKE.” The different columns in this panel provide useful information about the job, such as who submitted it, which pool it is assigned to, its current status (for example rendering or queued), and the date and time it was submitted.
When you click on the job, it will become highlighted. Once selected, additional information about that job will appear in the top-right panel, where you can preview more details about the task and its progress.
With the job highlighted in the left panel, you will be able to see the render PCs working on your job one frame at a time in the panel on the right.
In this section there are several important columns to pay attention to. The Frame column shows which frame of your scene is currently being processed. The Progress column indicates the percentage of completion for that frame. The Worker column shows which render farm Machine is currently processing the frame. Lastly, the Task Time column displays how long the task has been running, which can help give an indication of how long your frames may take to render overall.
Lastly, at the bottom of the Deadline Monitor application, you will be able to see a list of all the different machines available in the render farm, along with their specifications. This section shows which computers are available and which ones are currently processing render tasks. If a machine is highlighted in green, it means that it is currently in use and actively rendering a job.
This is where you can monitor and view the status of your job, but the actual rendered output files will be written to your Elements folder, where they will appear as the render progresses.