Animation - Problem with Max passes

[Peeter]

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.

[romullus]

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?

[Peeter]

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!

[maru]

How are you setting the max passes limit?

[Peeter]

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

[Nekrobul]

Are you using single PC or several nodes?

[Peeter]

Hi Nekrobul, single PC.

[maru]

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)

[Peeter]

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

Thank you again.

[romullus]

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.

[Peeter]

Thank you again Romullus