Set up your workstation
Set up a workstation so that you can submit jobs to AWS Deadline Cloud from your digital content creation (DCC) application. A Deadline Cloud submitter is a DCC plugin. You use it to submit jobs from a third-party DCC interface that you're familiar with. You can follow these steps yourself, or an administrator can install the software in advance. You sign in with your own user account.
Before you begin, you need the following:
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The monitor URL for your farm, which looks like
https://. Your administrator shares it with you. If you're the administrator, see Share the Deadline Cloud monitor URL.MY-MONITOR.REGION.deadlinecloud.amazonaws.com/ -
A user that can sign in to the monitor. If your organization uses single sign-on, sign in with your existing company account. If your administrator creates a user for you in AWS IAM Identity Center, accept the emailed invitation first. If you're the administrator, see Managing users in Deadline Cloud.
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The DCC installed on the workstation. For example, if you want to download the Deadline Cloud submitter for Blender, you need to have Blender already installed on your workstation.
Complete this process on every workstation that you use to submit renders.
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Step 1: Install the Deadline Cloud submitter
Download the submitter installer for your operating system:
With the installer, you can install the following submitters:
| Software | Supported versions | Windows installer | Linux installer | MacOS (arm64) installer |
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| Adobe After Effects | 2024 - 2026 | Included | Not included | Included |
| Autodesk 3ds Max | 2024 - 2027 | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Autodesk Arnold for Cinema 4D | 4.8.4.1 | Included | Not included | Included |
| Autodesk Arnold for Maya | 7.1 - 7.4 | Included | Included | Included |
| Autodesk Maya | 2023 - 2026 | Included | Included | Included |
| Autodesk VRED | 2025 - 2026 | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Blender | 3.6 - 5.1 | Included | Included | Included |
| Chaos V-Ray for Maya | 6 - 7 | Included | Included | Included |
| Foundry Nuke | 15 - 17 | Included | Included | Included |
| KeyShot Studio | 2023 - 2025 | Included | Not included | Included |
| Maxon Cinema 4D | 2024 - 2026 | Included | Not included | Included |
| Maxon Redshift for Maya | 2025-2026 | Included | Included | Included |
| SideFX Houdini | 19.5 - 21.0 | Included | Included | Included |
The standard installer doesn't include the Unreal Engine
submitter, which has a separate setup process. For installation
instructions, see the Unreal Engine Submitter Setup Guide
Step 2: Install and set up Deadline Cloud monitor
You can install the Deadline Cloud monitor desktop application with Windows, Linux, or macOS.
After you complete the download, you can verify the authenticity of the downloaded software. You might want to do this to ensure no one has tampered with the files during or after the download process. See Verify the authenticity of downloaded software.
After downloading Deadline Cloud monitor, use the following procedure to set up the Deadline Cloud monitor.
To set up Deadline Cloud monitor
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Open Deadline Cloud monitor.
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When prompted to create a new profile, complete the following steps.
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Enter your monitor URL into the URL input, which looks like
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Enter a Profile name.
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Choose Create Profile.
Your profile is created and your credentials are now shared with any software that uses the profile name that you created.
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After you create the Deadline Cloud monitor profile, you can't change the profile name or the studio URL. If you need to make changes, do the following instead:
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Delete the profile. In the left navigation pane, choose Deadline Cloud monitor > Settings > Delete.
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Create a new profile with the changes that you want.
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From the left navigation pane, use the >Deadline Cloud monitor option to do the following:
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Change the Deadline Cloud monitor profile to log in to a different monitor.
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Enable Autologin so you don't have to enter your monitor URL on subsequent opens of Deadline Cloud monitor.
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Close the Deadline Cloud monitor window. It continues to run in the background and enable other Deadline Cloud tools to access your render farm.
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For each digital content creation (DCC) application that you plan to use for your rendering projects, complete the following steps:
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From your Deadline Cloud submitter, open the Deadline Cloud workstation configuration.
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In the workstation configuration, select the profile that you created in the Deadline Cloud monitor. Your Deadline Cloud credentials are now shared with this DCC and your tools should work as expected.
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Step 3: Launch the Deadline Cloud submitter
The steps to load and launch the submitter are unique to each DCC. For the instructions for your DCC, see Supported Software.
If you want a free DCC to test your setup with, Blender is a good choice. See the Blender Installation instructions.
After you submit a job from your DCC, your Deadline Cloud farm receives it and a compatible fleet processes it. To verify your setup, open the monitor and confirm that your job appears and completes. For information on how to view job progress in the monitor, see Using the Monitor.
