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Possible to 'resume' rendering from a specific frame?

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06-29-2011 12:37 PM

In the middle of a long render sequence which is taking a bit longer than expected (don't they always?), but as I deliberated interrupting the process it occurred to me that unlike other animation apps, I'm not sure that Navis Simulate (2012) allows Users to 'pick-up' an animation from any specific frame - or even go back and re-render a specific frame(s) which may have been dropped or are otherwise unusable.

That said - Does Navis' Simulate 2012 allow Users to re-initiate an animation render pass from a specific point, frame(s), or animation segment?

The render pass was produced in Animator by creating a Camera by importing and editing a series of saved viewpoints which were compiled into an animation in the Saved Viewpoints panel.

Look forward to the input!..

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Re: Possible to 'resume' rendering from a specific frame?

07-04-2011 08:08 AM in reply to:

There's not currently a way to do this if you export directly to an AVI file, however if you do render lots of longer animations then you may be better to export the animation as a series of images then join these together in post processing. Just change the output on this dialog.

There's lots of free and cheap applications which can convert images to an AVI. And this also means you can create smaller parts of an animation and render them on multiple machines, reducing render time.

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Re: Possible to 'resume' rendering from a specific frame?

07-12-2011 11:49 AM in reply to:

Thanks for the info, Lee - but I do currently output to single images and compile later; I'll explain.

Scenario 1. Let's say I have a 1000 frame animation in Animator - I init individual frame output to a common directory - at frame 302 (of the 1000), a network issue pops up and I have a system failure. I get the system back up, and preview the last rendered still/frame, 302, it looks good and I'm ready to continue outputting the remaining frames, from 303 to 1000. Is that possible?

Scenario 2. I output all 1000 frames to completion without issues. On reviewing the frames, I notice a single frame, 303, was somehow corrupted during output and needs to be re-rendered. Is it possible to re-output just the needed frame, number 303?

For an even more practical example - I'm currently outputting a several thousand-frame long animation, and recevied a call earlier asking if the client could come up to quickly review the model - I explained that that would ential me having to interrupt the NAvis' output and that I was unaware of a way to re-start an ongoing render pass from a specific frame; that they should seek an alternative review method. Not exactly what they wanted to hear.

Thanks again, Lee - your assist is greatly appreciated.

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