Devin Johnston Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I know this has recently covered but I can't find it so bare with me. The animation that I just rendered has some frames that need to be re-rendered. The job is still in BB and I seem to remember that there was a way to re-send the job so that frames that were missing could be rendered again. My question is can I delete the frames that are messed up and somehow have BB re-render just those frames without having to resend the job? Or can I resend the job and have BB only render those missing frames? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 You can delete the frames that are bad, and then in Backburner, go to the job and then edit settings. In there is an option to "skip existing frames" if you turn that on, you can restart the job and it will only render the frames that don't already exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Sweet! I knew it could do that I've just never done it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Ok there's a problem, I did like you said changing the "skip existing frames" field to "yes" in BB under job settings. When I restart the job though instead of only picking up the frames that I deleted it's starting over completely. Something is not working here any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 If it's working correctly, backburner will appear to render each frame, but only take like a second per frame as it picks through the existing frames. Once it comes on a frame that hasn't rendered, it will actually render. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Unless my machines are exceptionally slow it's not working. Does the entire scene have to load into Max before it checks to see if the frame is there or not? I restarted the job about 5 minutes ago and each node is still assigned to the first frame it received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Ok for what ever reason it took my nodes 8 minutes to analyse the first frame, after that all of the other frames were done in 1 second. I guess that's the time it takes each node to load the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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