Skip Frame

[kenz]

Could someone please tell me ?
why MR .for XSI 7 always skip render frames ?
such as 1-2-3-5-7-8-10-11-13 the skiped files are replace by unknow format.
how can I do ?

[Roughy]

I've been getting this as well. It renders the frame, but rendered frame is not actually saved, leaving us with the 128 byte file that it spawns at the beginning of each frame.

You can just re-render and tell it to skip rendered frames, but it stil a bloody pain. :censored:

ninja edit: it seems proportional to the length of the render. 1min/frame leaves me with a dropped frame ever 7 frames, and 10sec/frame drops 32th frame.

[kim aldis]

it seems a few people have seen this. Firstly, send your scene off to support. If they can repro the problem there's a good chance they'll fix it.

In the meantime you might try submitting your scene to your farm twice with the skip rendered frame option on. Or using batch files to render with the. Scene twice in the batchfile and, again, skip frames on.

[Sapien]

I'm having the same problem. Anyone found a solution, aside from the workaround?

[Sapien]

I'm demo-ing XSI 7 on another home built system and am still getting this problem with old and new scenes. So it's either something I'm doing wrong or it's a problem for lots of others too. But only one other person has said anything in the forums. Thus, it's probably me. So what am I doing wrong that would cause this?

[halfdan]

That sounds like a bad bug to me and so I have a few questions:


Which format are you outputting as? EXR?
Does this happen even if no output frames already exist?
Does the frame rate seem to matter at all?
Are you rendering to the network?
Are you rendering the same scene using two or more computers?
Does this happen with both xsi and xsibatch?

Thanks

[Roughy]

That sounds like a bad bug to me and so I have a few questions:


Which format are you outputting as? EXR?
Does this happen even if no output frames already exist?
Does the frame rate seem to matter at all?
Are you rendering to the network?
Are you rendering the same scene using two or more computers?
Does this happen with both xsi and xsibatch?

Thanks

for me:

It happens with both PICT and EXR, so I'd say it's safe to assume that it is unrelated to the output format. However: I currently have it set to compile an avi out of the rendered frames. When rendering to PICT it will note that it is missing source frames, and is thus unable to do so, but when EXR is used, the avi is compiled, using the previous frame to fill in the missing ones. Probably unrelated, but not being noticed of missings frames is a bad thing.

Yes.

No.

No.

No.

Problem is still present when using xsibatch.

Rather than being related to the length of the rendered frame, I suppose it would really be that a frame is dropped every X seconds, or, in my case, Every 384 seconds, give or take ~20seconds. This number appears to be constant regardless of the scene file or any other commonly configured setting. If it takes longer to render each frame, the number of frames between each dropped frame would obviously drop.

Also, the initial number of dropped frames is not constant, ie the number of frames rendered at the beginning of the render until it hits the first dropped frame changes every time you render. This means that the clock (the 384sec cycle) keeps on ticking constantly, therefore at which point during its cycle you start the render will have an effect on the number of frames rendered inbetween frame 0 and the first dropped frame.

*phew*