[Bf-funboard] Render frame ranges/filenames

[Campbell Barton]

Hey Doug,
Idea 1) - too obscure, better to make this a button from 2 to 10 or somthing.
idea 2) - The nice thing about image sequences is anything can read
them, if we used exif, it would probably be something only we
supported.

Nathan - more then 300,000 frames is fine but currently blenders
MAXFRAME is defined at 300,000 so its really a separate
discussion.......... I dont seriously believe you made a movie over
3.4 hrs ;-) If we were to increase the maxframe to 999999, 25fps is
around 11hrs, so I think 6 numbers as a max is a safe maximum.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Nathan Letwory <jesterking at letwory.net> wrote:
> 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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