Team Render - Corona - saving multiple CXR

[NOOKTA]

Hello there,

the past few days I've been setting up Team Render on a few machines. I've also been reading a few threads about this in this forum. So far I managed to set up all machines, they are working and not causing any trouble. I even did a comparison with 1 vs 3 and the amount of passes were doubled. The last thing I'm not getting to work is to save multiple CXR from the Picture Viewer. I have the following scene setup (attached):

• simple geometry
• simple lighting
• simple materials
• two cameras
• stage object which is keyframed - first frame, first camera, second frame, second camera

I can easily have this rendered with Team Render and it also renders both frames. My goal is to save both final renderings to CXR so I can work with Post Process and LightMix. Unfortunately the Picture Viewer always saves the last frame as a CXR. And the VFB only shows last frame as well. I guess the button "Dump to CXR" does nothing else than save the CXR from the VFB? (I have the checkbox "automatic save on render end" enabled - but shouldn't have anything to do with that?)

Am I missing something? Is it even possible? Is it just a bug? The Trello board actually says something about saving from picture viewer, but I think that it is already implemented? (https://trello.com/b/dgI8vjDb/corona-road-map-cinema-4d)

My final goal is to render several shots with Team Render save them out afterwards a CXR. Any tips on how to achieve what I want?

I can try to deliver some more info if needed.

[TomG]

Hi! Sorry, it's not possible at the moment to save any CXRs except what is currently in the VFB - can't save to CXR from the PV (planned for some point in the future, https://trello.com/c/Saw1LcWQ/49-cxr-saving-support-in-picture-viewer), and can't save from the VFB history to CXR (or I think to any file, you can only save the most recent render).

(So for now you would have to use TR to render the first shot, save it to CXR, then start the render for the next shot, save to CXR, etc. You still get the benefit of multiple machines working on one frame, but you can't "queue up" the renders to go through one after the other).

[NOOKTA]

Alright, thanks for your reply on this matter. Looking forward to if and when this will be supported!

Cheers!

[GerardNL]

Hi! Sorry, it's not possible at the moment to save any CXRs except what is currently in the VFB - can't save to CXR from the PV (planned for some point in the future, https://trello.com/c/Saw1LcWQ/49-cxr-saving-support-in-picture-viewer), and can't save from the VFB history to CXR (or I think to any file, you can only save the most recent render).

(So for now you would have to use TR to render the first shot, save it to CXR, then start the render for the next shot, save to CXR, etc. You still get the benefit of multiple machines working on one frame, but you can't "queue up" the renders to go through one after the other).

I'm curious if it is now, 5 years later :-), possible to save multiple CXR files, or place them in the Render Queue?