I wish I'd thought of this earlier. The idea came to me as I'm under pressure to produce a lot quicker than I have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGW8F3s0Hmg&feature=youtu.be

How to speed up 3D Animation rendering using upscaling for certain shots. more at https://www.facebook.com/scififunk?ref=hl

A variety of tactics to speed up your rendering by using smaller images and upscaling.

When to use this, how it relates to DOF, and grain removal.

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A well used trick to create a more film-like visual – and a huge time saver. 

Ah. I was behind the curve then. It only took me 5 years to shed my idealism. lol.

Depends on what you composite in, another trick is to use Multi-pass rendering (Pro only feature) render out the Velocity pass, then you can render 1/3rd to 1/2 as many frames. The velocity pass information helps fill in the blanks. :) 

That's an interesting idea. Is is borrowing from an animation favourite of tweening between frames? Octane now has render passes I'll see if it has a velocity pass and give it a go. Cheers.

Project Dogwaffle has a motion prediction (interpolation) algorithm, which can produce in between frames from existing rendered frames. While it is a 32 bit application, this function is pretty fast.

http://www.thebest3d.com/howler/7/motion-prediction-module.html