Just out of curiosity, why do you need to render an animation that has more then 10,000 continuous frames? That's almost 7 minutes of animation in one take at 24fps...<br><br>As for the number of frames, would it be possible to specify the number some where so if you only need 4 you can set it to 4 but if you need more you can set it to more?<br>
<br>phong<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Campbell Barton <<a href="mailto:ideasman42@gmail.com">ideasman42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Id like to change the default number of frames blender writes to be<br>
always 6 - which fits with blenders max frame of 300000.<br>
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Read on for the rationale...<br>
<br>
when rendering more then 9999 frames some problems arise.<br>
Blender uses 4 numbers when the end frame is less then 9999. Which is<br>
fine in cases where you just want to render out everything at once.<br>
But if you want to re-render smaller frame ranges, the numbers in each<br>
frame dont match so you end up with (final0001.dpx and final00001.dpx)<br>
and a whole bunch need batch renaming.<br>
<br>
If the number of files is really big it gets less nice, I found over<br>
10,000 files crash krename for instance (a bug in krename ofcourse),<br>
but it takes a long time to display those files in any file manager<br>
and generally its not nice to have to deal with especially early in<br>
the morning - see.<br>
<a href="http://peach.blender.org/index.php/woosh-the-deadline-passed-or-how-everything-that-can-go-wrong-does/" target="_blank">http://peach.blender.org/index.php/woosh-the-deadline-passed-or-how-everything-that-can-go-wrong-does/</a><br>
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Luckily for for final0001.dpx we used bash-fu to do the renaming for us.<br>
<br>
for i in final????.dpx; do j=`echo $i | sed 's/final/final0/g'`; mv<br>
"$i" "$j"; done<br>
<br>
On windows youd probably have to scour the net for some shareware (or<br>
get cygwin if your know unix well enough), but either way these are<br>
not things you want to worry about at the last minute.<br>
<br>
The extra 2 chars on every name isnt too bad now almost nobody relies<br>
on 8.3 letter names anymore.<br>
Personally Id make it default, though it could be an option also.<br>
<br>
Any opinions on this, reason not to change this?<br>
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