I've written several tools in Python to aid in the production pipeline to take advantage of Deadline's job queueing capabilities.
createProRes will create a job to execute FFMPEG via deadline on a target image sequence to generate a ProRes quicktime.
proxyPlatesSubmit submits a job to deadline to create JPGs of a DPX sequence to be used as proxies in AfterEffects. Each folder added as an argument will be submitted as a separate job.
createMP4Review will create a job to execute FFMPEG via deadline on a target image sequence to generate an MP4 quicktime for reviewing purposes.