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Title: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 12:13:43

Hi guys!

I'm trying to make an animation, but I don't know why the render doesn't stop when it reaches the max passes set. I'm rendering in progressing mode, and saving the animation in a .MOV file.
Is there a better workflow to make animations, setting a specific number for passes needed?

Thank you in advance!

Pedro.

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: romullus on 2016-03-01, 12:18:20

Never render to .mov or .avi file. NEVER! Choose output as image sequence, do yourself a favor.
As for max passes, are you using camera's multi-pass effect by a chance?

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 12:24:21

Hi Romullus,

I'm not using camera multi-pass effect. This is my first animation so I don't know what is the best workflow to compose a video later. Which format should I choose, and which software is recommended to join all the frames?

I've realized that I can stop the render manually each frame, but there must be a better way to do it...

Thank you!

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: maru on 2016-03-01, 12:46:19

How are you setting the max passes limit?

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 12:57:23

Hi Maru,

In performance, interactive rendering, max passes is limited to 90 passes as that's enough to get a clear rendering in this scene. Am i missing something? Thank you

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Nekrobul on 2016-03-01, 13:30:17

Are you using single PC or several nodes?

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 13:31:35

Hi Nekrobul, single PC.

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: maru on 2016-03-01, 13:33:45

Quote from: elpeterja on 2016-03-01, 12:57:23

Hi Maru,

In performance, interactive rendering, max passes is limited to 90 passes as that's enough to get a clear rendering in this scene. Am i missing something? Thank you

:)

You should not use the interactive rendering pass limit, but the regular one. (see screenshot)

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 13:39:53

Thanks Maru! That solved the problem. Any suggestions to save all the frames and join them once rendered? 

Thank you again.

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: romullus on 2016-03-01, 13:54:18

Usually i save image sequence to jpg or png, if i have no intention to correct it much or to linear exr, if i plan to do major corrections. I postprocess them in batch in photoshop, then assemble to video in vdub or after effects, depending on whether i want to make some additional changes or not.

Title: Re: Animation - Problem with Max passes
Post by: Peeter on 2016-03-01, 14:09:29

Thank you again Romullus