[Bf-funboard] Render frame ranges/filenames

[Nathan Letwory]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Sangwoo Hong <sahngwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Video-editing in sequencer. I want to be able to create as long edits
as I want (no, they don't need to fit on DVD, should be as long as I
want them to be). I have even hit the 300000 frame limit that
currently is in Blender. Why? Because.

/Nathan

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