Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 47590

The easiest way to do it with standard AE tools, is the way Phil describes, delete the frames you want to overwrite and set it to "skip existing frames".

But if you render seqences alot, like i do, then get the BG Renderer script from aescripts.com. With this i just set the job up in the Render Queue and launch several instances of the BG Render to overwrite the segments of the sequence, one at a time changing the workarea in/out.

Launching several aerender processes ofcourse make them each load the project, and you can get into RAM shortage or they will fight over CPU resources if it is a heavy project. But it is a workflow i use alot, since i can set at segement up to render while i keep working on another part of the timeline.

If you have fast CPUs and plenty of ram, you will love this :-)

There even is a demo version of the script that i think is full functional for a few days/weeks.

- Robert

2013/2/2 Phil Spitler <phil@bonfirelabs.com>

Yup
delete the bad files from your drive then click the "skip existing frames" button in the render settings.

Set the range to be from 0-5000 and AE will only render the missing frames.

Sounds like this is just what you need.

Phil

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On Feb 2, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Elliot Steele wrote:

Right chaps/chapesses, this is something that has been bugging me for ages & I’m pretty sure I’m just missing something obvious...

Example:
I have a comp which is 5000 frames long.
I’ve already rendered this to a folder as sequential tiffs.
I need to change various parts of the comp & re-render the frames which are different.
For example frame 0-750, 1250-2500 & 4000-5000.
I set up 3 render jobs, one for each chunk of files, however AE won’t let me set of the queue & go to bed & gives me the message “the name of the selected output module is already in use. please choose another name.” which I can’t because all the files have to have the same names.

I’m currently having to wait for each part to finish before submitting the next job, which is a bit of a pain as I want to go & watch telly.

Is there any solution to this, just using the render queue (without net-rendering, command-line rendering etc.)?

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers

Elliot