what to do with a 42,000 frame animation, that is not complete?
started it when i first grabbed Mandelbulb3D, and it got put on the back burner at 1672 keyframes.
it uses "Octahedron4" formula only, starting off in a solid ball formation, and a zoom of 0.5, currently at a zoom level of 3.843E5 (E13 being system or program max), current alterations to formula fields are in the 0.00001 with large impact. as it stands, it would take around 30,000 MB of memory to render in one shot at 480x360 at a 1:1. i simply do not have anything near that. i do have 8 that i can work with, and an i5 64-bit system. just loading the save file causes the program to lag a little.
so what do i do with this movie? i know i can always take the last keyframe and start a new file from there to keep the load lag down, but then im just gonna end up with another 42,000 frame animation, that will just be a continuation of the first.
any thoughts anybody?
Yes, animations eat TONS of memory at almost any resolution. Fortunately, you have many options.
You can set the start index to any frame you like for easy resuming of rendering.
If storing and overall memory is a problem, you can render in pieces and save individual image sequences to compressed files on an external drive (1 or 2 TB external drives have gotten a lot cheaper lately). Then just save the drive for the day you have a computer able to render the animation with a decent video editor.
Then there's the option of somehow finding a cloud based solution for storing the files (many online file storage hosts exist, and I would not be surprised to find an online rendering solution for image sequences to mp4 files with H265 compression in the not too distant future, assuming none exist yet).
If none of those appeal, there's always rendering 42 movies of 1,000 frames each
My advice is to start small and build up to working with larger sequences. I find when rendering such long animations I all too often run into a glitch in the middle I failed to expect and it can ruin months of rendering time!
Hope that helps, and good luck with the work!
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