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[onespirit5777]

After rendering for 3.5 days on a project that was only for 10 seconds my computer wanted to restart with a windows update. Well the funny thing is, my computer was not hooked up to the net at that time, but it did download an update earlier that day, but I did not want to to install at that time. So for what ever reason it installed anyway at 3:50am and I lost it all. The avi file was corrupt and could not be used.

So please do yourself a favor and turn off your windows update before you render animation and disconnect from the internet or just use a different computer.

7.5 seconds were rendered - I was so close! wah! wah! wah!

[RudySchneider]

Another fabulous example of why it's best to render out individual frames and composite them afterwards, rather than render a complete animation!  That way, you can just pick up again from the last frame rendered, and lose only one frame, at most.

[hihosilver]

I do agree with Rudy here.  I used to ignore his advice for that one thinking I'd be fine and never have any trouble, but once I got into heavy rendering I figured it was for the best.  Then each night I can render a few frames, and pick up the rendering the next night.  It's perfect.  So I'd advise this next time you render the .jpg's then import them into a program as a sequence file and save as a .avi instead.

[thecolclough]

i've never used the rendering-individual-frames method before, but i was thinking about using it for my new project.  i guess for me, this is another little push in that direction.

deepest commiserations, onespirit!

- colclough

[ENSONIQ5]

Indeed, onespirit5777, I too feel your pain.  Mine was a power outage after 2 weeks of what eventually turned out to be a 3 week render.  It was almost a year ago but I still get the bad dreams!  For big stuff I have started using the individual frame method, but still use the direct-to-AVI process for test renders and little things.  Post production effects like lens flares can be easier to add to individual images as well, if you don't have a 2D package capable of stripping AVI's into individual frames.

[Mactetra]

or you could just render videos of smaller amount of frames, like 1-5 and then 6-10 etc. and then edit all the videos together.

[hihosilver]

Mactetra, the nice thing about rendering images is that you don't have to keep starting the rendering again.  Anim8or does image sequences without stopping.  So you don't render each frame individually, you still render the movie, but as consecutive images.

[Mactetra]

Mactetra, the nice thing about rendering images is that you don't have to keep starting the rendering again.  Anim8or does image sequences without stopping.  So you don't render each frame individually, you still render the movie, but as consecutive images.

Yeah, but when you were to put them together you would need some kind of software that turned images into movies,

Sure you could use windows movie maker, but that would take a loong time and probably lag a lot.

with my way you could edit the small videos together with any video editing software.

[hihosilver]

Virtual dub does it fine I believe.
Most video editing programs nowadays put together image sequences.

[onespirit5777]

I use a freeware program called pjBmp2Avi - It only takes bmp or tiff images.