Core concepts

Organization

An organization is the account boundary for projects, render capacity, credits, billing, and collaborators. Check the active organization before buying credits or submitting work.

Project

A project groups related render jobs and supplies the isolated remote file area used by PROJECT uploads. Reusing a project lets later submissions skip unchanged files.

Organization is not a project

The organization owns the balance and capacity. A project organizes production data and jobs inside it.

Submission and job

A submission runs on your computer in its own terminal window: trace dependencies, package or diff files, upload, register the job. The job appears only after those steps succeed.

A render job records the scene settings and frame work sent to Superluminal. It can be queued, running, blocked for funds, paused, errored, or finished. A job contains one or more frame tasks.

Frame task

Each requested frame is a task. Frames progress independently across render machines. The web job page combines task state with previews, render layers, logs, machine assignment, and timing.

Upload mode

ZIP

Creates a self-contained archive. Default and safest for a first render, assets outside a clean project root, or files across drives. Each submission uploads the complete archive again.

PROJECT

Uses a project root and uploads files individually. Later jobs can reuse unchanged remote files. All dependencies must map beneath the project root. The trace can exclude absolute or cross-drive paths.

Render output and previews

The web app shows optimized previews for fast review, not full-quality files. Download final output through the add-on's Manage & Download section. The farm keeps render objects for seven days.

Credits and capacity

Credits pay for render compute. Render capacity controls parallel work. Billing charges for successful render work at in-app pricing. Keep the balance positive. At zero, the farm can stop machines that are still rendering.

• Projects: Create, rename, open, and delete projects.
• Upload settings: Pick a packaging model for the scene's file layout.
• Job details: Frame, preview, machine, timing, chart, and log panels.
• Billing: Add credits and configure organization billing.