verify file sequence

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

....does anyone know of a freeware/shareware app that will take care of this.

 

i often have directories with several hundred frames in them. at times i may be missing 40 or so frames randomly throughout the sequence. currently i am going back and counting the numbers until i find the missing frames. it can be time consuming.

 

when i used lightnet with lightwave to manage my rendering farm, i could point it to the target directory, and it would tell me what frames were missing from the sequence, then i could copy and paste them into the frames to be rendered dialog.

 

now i am using 3dmax and backburner for rendering and render farm management. there does not seem to be a feature like this.

 

i have looked around the net briefly, but also thought that someone here may already have a little app that will verify and tell you what frames/files are missing in a sequence of file.

 

....just trying to make myself more efficient.

 

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

nevermind. there is a 'skip existing frames' in the max render option dialog, and it seems to be working fine.

 

...but is anyone knows of an app that will do this, that would be cool also.

 

this thred should be moved to the max forum, or deleted entirely.

[Wayne Harney]

I open RAM player and select the first frame, check "sequence" and look at the "statistics" at the bottom of the dialog. Then just cancel out instead of loading the frames. This only tells you your 1st missing frame if there are any but it is a start. After filling in that missing frame repeat the process to see if any more are missing. I agree that it would be nice to have a utility identifying all missing files from a sequence.