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Midway Animation Render to save and finish later?

Gemini QueenGemini Queen Posts: 263
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I want to make a panoramic view of one of the scenes that I've been working on. However, baased on what I'm seeing on tutorials on youtube, this could be 300+ frames, and each frame could take between 2-20 minutes. While the night is young, I could start and possibly be done around 1-2 AM. However, I want to know if there's a way to start rendering an animation, get halfway through, stop, save it, and then come back later and pick up rendering where you left off. I tried searching for something like this online, and couldn't find anything. Push come to shove, I'll just let it run all night. Thanks. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,781

    Render to an image sequence and you can do as many frames in a session as you like.

  • Gemini QueenGemini Queen Posts: 263

    When you say image sequence, you mean the render type as "Movie" and the Render Range settings right? 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,781

    No, I mean the Render Type as Image Sequence - that gives you each frame as an image (which is actually what Movie does, then it stitches them together at the end). Aside from letting you render in bursts, that also defends agaisnt crashes, allows you to save as PBG or Tiff so you can have an alpha, allows you to rrender any problem frames without having to rerender the whole thing, and so on.

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