Batch Gartner is a standalone render queue for Foundry Nuke. It renders your scripts one after another in the background with Nuke's command line, so the Nuke GUI stays free for work. It runs on your own workstation, no render farm involved.
Batch Gartner
First submitted: 1 October 2026
Author: Pedro Gartner
Website: https://github.com/PedroGartner
Compatible Nuke versions: 15.0 or later
Compatibility: Source
Batch Gartner
Batch Gartner is a standalone render queue manager for Nuke. It renders your scripts in the background through Nuke's command line, so the GUI stays free while your comps render one after another.
Main features
Send selected or all Write nodes straight from Nuke (Ctrl+Alt+B). Batch Gartner starts automatically if it isn't running.
Script snapshots: each job renders the script as it was when you queued it, so you can keep working and saving.
Automatic resume: stopped or failed renders continue from the frames already on disk.
Overwrite protection, missing and zero-byte frame checks, and Render Missing Frames.
Built-in preview of finished frames (EXR, TIFF, PNG, JPG), which never locks files Nuke is writing.
Create Read in Nuke: drop a Read node for a finished render next to its Write node.
Priorities, dependencies, scheduled starts, chunking, retries, timeouts and test frames (first / middle / last).
Render Power and "Render While I Work" mode to keep your workstation responsive.
Live progress, ETA, per-job logs, clear error messages and crash recovery.
Optional simultaneous renders for machines with many cores and plenty of RAM.
Requirements: Nuke (tested with Nuke 15), a separate Python 3.9+ with PySide6 (pip install PySide6 psutil). For EXR preview, also pip install OpenEXR numpy.
Developed and tested on Windows; macOS and Linux are supported but less tested.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Pedro Gartner
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