parkdalegardener posted at 4:44 AM Fri, 18 February 2022 - #4434925

Last I checked; Cycles/Superfly needs a complete render before it can denoise the image. Can't denoise till you have a noisy image to begin with. If you are worried about drive life for your main ssd I would suggest you use a second drive to store Poser's and any other images you will be post working on as denoise is only postwork on a finished image. You will never have the first image not happen if you expect the second one.

Poser renders to a temp.exr, before saving both files to disk :  "C:\Users\JAFO\AppData\Local\Temp\Queue Manager\12\quRender 3 213.exr". So its actually writing  3 files to disk.

All I'm asking for is the option to turn the duplicates off. Most people work many hours, days or weeks on a single image, so having a duplicate is no big deal. In my case we're talking THOUSANDS or TENS OF THOUSANDS of images written to disk, in just a few weeks. I don't know of any Independent artist who can afford to buy new storage devices at that rate. I render to a new  Toshiba 6tb high speed HHD, at ~$200 a pop it wont take long for the expense to become Unmanageable.

Y'all have a great day.

Y'all have a great day.