I’m a newbie to blender. I don’t quite understand how to get from rendering frames to a movie. using one of the open movie projects i’d like to re-render a shot from the blend file into a short movie. my understanding (though likely wrong), is that i would call blender for each frame in the .blend file (examples in shorthand)
blender -y 03a_comp.blend -f 1 -b
which would give me an image file for frame one. i would then repeat this for each frame in the .blend
python blender-2.78a-linux-glibc211-x86_64/2.78/scripts/modules/blend_render_info.py 03a_comp.blend
1 140 03a_comp
in this case there appears to be 140 frames. here’s where I’m stuck though, if the movie is supposed to run 24fps, that means this sequence would only be a couple seconds long. which could be the case, but looking at all the .blend files
1 300 01a_comp
339 570 01b_comp
556 676 01c_comp
680 845 01d_comp
1149 1149 01e_comp
850 969 01f_comp
1 103 02a_comp
1 140 03a_comp
1 70 03b_comp
1 72 04a_comp
1 85 04b_comp
1 243 06a_comp
18 60 07a_comp
1 20 08a_comp
1 96 09a_comp
1 171 10a_comp
307 330 10b_comp
512 577 10c_comp
435 537 10d_comp
538 632 11a_comp
that would mean the caminandes movie is only a minute or so long, and i know it’s definitely longer then that.
I’ve tried searching around the web, but i can’t seem to locate anything that points me in the right direction. Everything I’ve read just seems to say render the composites by frame and then pull them into a video sequence. which makes sense if i had thousands of frames. What am I missing?