Anybody know how I can render my 600 frames to individual .jpgs instead of to an .avi?

I can do this in VIZ, and I like it because if there's a problem w/ one of the render cows messing up some frames I can fix it easily and just re-render those frames w/out having to do the whole .avi, or if there's a network problem in the middle of the render, then I don't have to start all over again.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Fletch

Easy. When you left click the render button and get the animation render options panel, in the section marked channel files you have entries for the color channel, alpha, and depth channel. On the color channel line, click on format options and set it for full frame uncompressed (better to do the compressing as a last stage in Premiere or After Effects; compressing already compressed images can lead to artifacts) and click ok. Then hit the browse button to choose where to save the images. Name the files, and select the extension type you want; I'd go with bitmaps rather than jpegs, just so you don't get compression issues. Click okay on that panel, and the entry in the color channel window should be 'title.extension'. After that, just hit the render animation button and away you go!

cool, I saw that option, but wasn't confident it would export the entire .avi as .jpgs or .bmps, I was afraid it was going to just render one still frame.. thanks a ton!

Yes, I completely agree about rendering 'uncompressed' w/ Vue and Sketchup too, it saves the .avi faster when it's uncompressed. Even if you don't have an post-production program like Premier, you can just zip up the .avi and it will shrink by about 60 percent.