Mandelbrot set 1000 zooms | E301 | 2^1000

[Dinkydau]

Another problem with the zoom movie renderer is that it doesn't even prompt you before overwriting the files. Since it is easy to lose hours or days of work this way, I have a habit of marking everything in my \Movies folder as read-only. A better option would be a dialog box with three options: "overwrite", "rename", and "resume". The Fractal Extreme program can then load the color palette and coordinate data from the incomplete zoom movie file to check that it matches the .fx document before proceeding.

Yes, be careful...

While my current workaround is to start a new zoom movie at the same depth as the last completed frame, it may be possible to pick apart the zoom movie format and splice the frames back together using a hex editor, but I imagine this would be difficult depending on the data compression methods. Either way, as a workaround it is much easier to join them back together as AVI files, since AVI is a well-documented format. I encode with the x264 codec, then use AVIdemux to seamlessly join the AVIs together without re-encoding. HuffyYUV lossless compression or uncompressed frames would work better, but for 1280x720 30p video, the drive space required would be ginormous.

The maximum file size of the avi files fractal extreme exports seems to be 1,86 GB for some reason. If it gets larger than that, it splits the video in multiple files already. Although it would be easier to just save an unfinished zoom render, the workaround is fairly simple, because for uploading a video, audio and maybe intro and outro have to be added, so you would have to process the files anyway. For that I usually export the video as extremely high quality avi files, lossless, then finally compress them together with added music and intro and outro. It does take up some temporary disk space, but it's better. I'd do it just for the idea of that it's better.