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Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:12 pm
by Hesekiel2517
Hey there,
i'm doing a short commercial with a lot of short shots. It is very tedious to start a render, wait a hour and start a new and repeat (especially when you want to render over night). So what workflow do you suggest to set all shots up and let octane do the work automatically?
Thank you in advance
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:29 am
by face_off
If the shots are of the same scene, you could move the camera to each shot position each frame. Then render as an animation with Camera Motion Blur disabled. If the shots are for different scenes, you could render them on the cloud separately (use the octane.uploadFrame command for each shot to do this - you will need an Octane Cloud Render account) or export each separately to ORBX/OCS and render in Octane Standalone (I think you can pass a list of files to render in Standalone via the command line - you will need to check the documentation on this).
Paul
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:31 pm
by Hesekiel2517
Exporting via the octane.saveAnimation command works nice. But sadly the focal depth animation gets lost. Is there a quick solution for this?
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 9:03 pm
by face_off
Exporting via the octane.saveAnimation command works nice. But sadly the focal depth animation gets lost. Is there a quick solution for this?
Pls see my response at
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=56816
Paul
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:01 am
by Hesekiel2517
I saw your post, but i still don't know how to export to octane Standalone properly. The octane.saveAnimation command doesn't work, because it uses the focal distance of frame 1. So the only option i see is to use the Save to OCS/ORBX Button for every frame which is a little tedious.
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:14 am
by face_off
Does unticking Camera Motion Blur still result in the focal distance not being animated?
Paul
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:24 am
by Hesekiel2517
In Modo it works, but if i export it to orbx or orc it doesn't work. I attached a sample scene
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:37 am
by face_off
I will correct this in the next release.
Paul
Re: Best Batch render workflow in Modo
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:42 am
by Hesekiel2517
Thats great! Thank you!