Deadline Distributed Video Collector

Same class as DistributedVideoCollector, Deadline-branded name, identical behavior. Read that article for the full picture; this one just saves you the re-read. The inputs are video (the VIDEO stream), filename_prefix (default video/DeadlineDistributed), format (auto/mp4), and codec (auto/h264), and it returns a manifest STRING describing what was saved - including missing_workers and errors, which is where you look when a worker vanished mid-job.

The workflow it serves: workers render their clips, encode them to mp4, upload to the master, and the master writes them into its output folder. Outside a distributed job it just saves locally and returns the manifest, so it's a safe node to leave in a workflow either way.

The Deadline prefix exists for the same reason as every other alias in this pack - the author ships Deadline-named versions so studio workflows read cleanly in the Thinkbox Deadline submission UI. There is no functional difference; pick the name and stick with it. If you're building the bootstrap or submission workflow that Deadline tasks actually run, the Deadline-prefixed name keeps the node inventory obvious.

Worth repeating only because it bites people: this node depends on ComfyUI's native video API, so every worker must run a ComfyUI build with video support, matching the master. And since it's a collector, the master's worker_result_wait_timeout setting in gpu_config.json is what governs how long it waits for a slow or dead worker before giving up and telling you about it.