jdredline opened this issue on Apr 13, 2011 · 8 posts
jdredline posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 12:12 PM
Couldn't figure out how to do a search in these forums.
So here's my question. I've rendering a 15 second animation of some clouds in the sky. Turns out, I'm up against a deadline and need it now. 7 seconds are done - more than I need.
Can I stop and save the animation as it is so far? And how do I do it?
bruno021 posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 1:22 PM
The Escape key will abort the render. Ifyou render to a video format, and not individual frames, you won't be able to resume.
jdredline posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 1:25 PM
The render window says "ESC to stop." I want to stop and save what I have so far.
jdredline posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 1:26 PM
And yes, I'm rendering to video format.
jdredline posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 1:29 PM
BTW, my running theory is that it will save what I have so far.
I had aborted an earlier test after 20 frames and that movie was saved.
I just would like confirmation before I stop it and loose a day's worth of rendering.
bruno021 posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 4:17 PM
Yes, what you already have will be saved.
jdredline posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 5:04 PM
Just to finish up on this topic for future answer seekers...
Yes, I hit ESC to stop and the 7.5 seconds that got rendered to that point were saved to my video format.
I also saved the project with the option to continue the render later.
bruno021 posted Wed, 13 April 2011 at 5:22 PM
You won't be able to resume the render, that's what I was saying earlier. Unless you combine the 2 videos in a video editor once you render the remainder of the animation. You will need to create a new video that will start at 7.5 seconds, no resuming, and combine it to what you already have to create a single movie out of the 2 movies you'll have.