Animation questions

[ecastillor]

1.- Im currently working on setting up a rendering network or farm, but in the mean time, Sometimes I render animations on different machines....that is....I divide the animation in two or three machines and put it together in premier.

 

so lets say I have a 2000 frames animation and what I usually do is calculate frame time Vs number of computers and render in each one....but since the frame rate isnt the same along the animation or a computer is slower than the other one, I end up rendering some frames twice, therefore loosing time....is it possible to start rendering in one machine from frame 0-2000 and on the other one in reverse order....from 2000-0 and have them meet in the middle.....did that make sense?

 

2.- what is the recommended FPS for arch animations that are either gong to be played on the computer or a DVD player on a TV?

 

I usually use the default 30 FPS

 

Thanx!

[mbr]

I've always used 30, but some people pointed out (on here) that it's not necessary and you can go with 25, saving a lot of rendering time.

 

 

Isn't Backburner what you are looking for?

[Victor Erthal]

You should use backburner and render your animations to .tga or .tif sequences, so you will never render frames twice. Backburner will automaticaly select the "free" machines and assign some frames to it. That is really easy to configure and has manny advantages.

[Devin Johnston]

I don't understand why your doing it that way, if you can send these files to these 3 computers there is no need to break up the animation. If you send it as one job and assign all 3 computers to it they will all render on the same job and you won't have to worry which is slower or faster.

[ihabkal]

You should use backburner and render your animations to .tga or .tif sequences, so you will never render frames twice. Backburner will automaticaly select the "free" machines and assign some frames to it. That is really easy to configure and has manny advantages.

 

also if you find something wrong with a frame (a glitch because mental ray does that sometimes) and delete it while the job is still being in the queue rendering, Backburner will find that out and rerender the missing frame...

[LukeC]

2.- what is the recommended FPS for arch animations that are either gong to be played on the computer or a DVD player on a TV?

 

I usually use the default 30 FPS

 

Thanx!

 

 

It depends on the format your wanting to render your video as - NTSC or PAL. My presumption is your wanting to view the video as NTSC (29.9fps - or commonly 30). PAL (which is applicable to me in aus) is 24/25 fps depended on its use.

 

There are some good guides out there on the net. Im not too sure about yoru regional settings, you'll just have to have a look around.

 

But yes, we use 25fps here which is perfectly fine (makes for shorter rendering times too )