Duplicating series of images?

Uthgard

Hi, I am rendering a video with a lot of frames that are just repeated (like long stretches of blank images with just a transparency channel) and I was wondering if there's any tool to just create an image series by duplicating an image and inserting the numbers of the series (like, for instance, images 100 to 150, then 350 to 365) to avoid having to render the whole thing. I mean, I am pretty sure the thing must exist, but I am not having any luck with my current Google-fu. Any suggestions? Thank you.

margrave

Production-level animation studios don't render movie files directly. They render out still images and combine them into one video.

You want to select "Image Series" under render type, and then render out specific ranges. Then just render one single image for whatever you want to repeat and stretch it along the video editor's timeline.

Blender has a VSE that can handle image sequences, if you don't have another program available.

algovincian

Try this utility:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

HTH.

- Greg

Uthgard

margrave said:

Production-level animation studios don't render movie files directly. They render out still images and combine them into one video.

You want to select "Image Series" under render type, and then render out specific ranges. Then just render one single image for whatever you want to repeat and stretch it along the video editor's timeline.

Blender has a VSE that can handle image sequences, if you don't have another program available.

Yeah, I kinda wanted to avoid messing too much with the video editor as every frame is synced to another video which will run in the background and just wanted to convert the image series to a single clip, but that seems like quite a straightforward edit and not too much of a hassle... For someone who isn't doing this for the first time and is quite likely to bork the whole thing out of sheer ignorance. Thank you.

 

 

algovincian said:

Try this utility:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

HTH.

- Greg

 

Oh, thanks! That's exactly what I was thinking about. I'll give it a look and see how it works.

margrave

Uthgard said:

Yeah, I kinda wanted to avoid messing too much with the video editor as every frame is synced to another video which will run in the background and just wanted to convert the image series to a single clip, but that seems like quite a straightforward edit and not too much of a hassle... For someone who isn't doing this for the first time and is quite likely to bork the whole thing out of sheer ignorance. Thank you.

Unfortunately, complexity and robustness are entwined. As one goes up, so does the other.

Taoz

Try this one (link may not work in IE):   https://3dcontentmanagers.com/software/freeware/filedup/ 

WendyLuvsCatz

rendering out image series and using something like free Hitfilm Express or Davinci Resolve paid Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier etc to compile them is probably the workflow of 90% of the people who do DAZ based 3D animation, the pro's using Max and Maya it's probably 100%.