Frame Set character limit

[Francois Kruger]

Hi,

Hope you are doing well? :)

Could you guys confirm if the Frame Set field has a character limit. Because we tried submitting frames 101-201, but each frame, so a list like: "101, 102, 103..." and it seems like it hit a limit at:

101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,13

It ended there and just cut off the 138 and stopped.

I just want to confirm that it is indeed a field limit or something and that I'm not being an idiot somewhere. In this case I can just change this to start=101 and end=201, but we might have other cases in the future where we have a random amount of frames like:

101, 114, 115, 127... and then a limit like this would become a roadblock.

Thanks for any help as always!

Francois Kruger

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

 

Yes, there the limitfor frameset is currently 150 characters.

 

There is a different way to submit a Binary Framset for all frames after the job was submitted, but it should not be used for these cases.

 

Just curious:

Why do you want to submit that many random frames and not the whole sequence?

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

 

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or our support system for new questions.

[RR, Schoenberger]

PS: The next version of RR includes the frame stepping for frame sets.

[Francois Kruger]

The next version, as in the next one coming out? Or is it out already and I need to update?

Look, it's not used much, and I hate using it myself. But we have a film where we are trying to save budget by only rendering certain frames. Basically a mix of 1 and 2 frame steps. So you could end up having a sequence with a lot of weird gaps in the frames. In other words, not as simple as 101-201+2 or whatever. So the easiest solve is to just make a list of frames and give that to RR. I mean if I had to think up an example imagine something like this:

101-120+2 121-150+5 151-155+1 156-201+3

Or something like that. I know it's an odd request. But it could be a possibly need in the future. Worst case I could split these all into separate jobs or something. It would just be super convenient if I didn't have to.

Francois Kruger

[RR, Schoenberger]

Next release 8.3.07 either this week or after FMX in 3 weeks.

It is ready, but missing the test week to look out for issues.

I might be able to send you a pre-release.

 

Do you think it would fit into 150 chars with the new step parameter?

 

> Basically a mix of 1 and 2 frame steps

Ok, like you do in stop motion animation.

 

 

I will log a new feature request to be able to send this BinaryFrameSet within the submission xml.

(Right now it is only possible with the rrPySubmit module (beta) as a second post-submission step).

But this feature might not be available soon.

[RR, Schoenberger]

 

Pre-release is rendering fine on our farm:

www.RoyalRender.de/download/RoyalRender__8.3.07r1__updateFrom_8.3.05+.zip

 

The dev ticket of your interest  was implemented:
#8492   frameset with stepstep:  120-130+2, 140-150 +3,

[Francois Kruger]

Ok awesome thanks a lot! Appreciate the help.