Animation - Problem with Max passes

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Hi guys!

I’m trying to make an animation, but I don’t know why the render doesn’t stop when it reaches the max passes set. I’m rendering in progressing mode, and saving the animation in a .MOV file.
Is there a better workflow to make animations, setting a specific number for passes needed?

Thank you in advance!

Pedro.

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Never render to .mov or .avi file. NEVER! Choose output as image sequence, do yourself a favor.
As for max passes, are you using camera’s multi-pass effect by a chance?

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Hi Romullus,

I’m not using camera multi-pass effect. This is my first animation so I don’t know what is the best workflow to compose a video later. Which format should I choose, and which software is recommended to join all the frames?

I’ve realized that I can stop the render manually each frame, but there must be a better way to do it…

Thank you!

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How are you setting the max passes limit?

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Hi Maru,

In performance, interactive rendering, max passes is limited to 90 passes as that’s enough to get a clear rendering in this scene. Am i missing something? Thank you

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Are you using single PC or several nodes?

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Hi Nekrobul, single PC.

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:smiley:

You should not use the interactive rendering pass limit, but the regular one. (see screenshot)

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Thanks Maru! That solved the problem. Any suggestions to save all the frames and join them once rendered?

Thank you again.

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Usually i save image sequence to jpg or png, if i have no intention to correct it much or to linear exr, if i plan to do major corrections. I postprocess them in batch in photoshop, then assemble to video in vdub or after effects, depending on whether i want to make some additional changes or not.

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Thank you again Romullus