Render queue out of one blender file?

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Hi,
I would like to queue render some cameras with different collections that are in one blender file, in one scene.

What possibilities do I have for that to batch it over night?

Many thanks for help!

Thomes

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Hi,

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Ok, cool… So if I have 20 collections I want to render, I have to make 20 scenes out of it.

I will try tomorrow

Thanks Sergey! All the best!

Thomes

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You could also write a simple Python script that would switch between collections for you, just in one scene

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programming…i´m out :face_with_hand_over_mouth:… so i think i will test this one…but as i understand i have to make a video editing where i collect all the single images…from there i render out all …thats right?

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No other render manager? Addon? Flamenco?

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If you mean Blender addons for render queue batch, from what I’ve seen, all of them are paid ones, thus, I can suggest that you’d better use a solution from the video I dropped above.

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If you’re willing to pay Photographer has render queue with support for view layer overrides

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Collection visibility cannot be animated. Instanced collection visibility can be animated. Drawback is that the file becomes cumbersome to work with; while revising you have to turn off the instances and enable the collection, and vice versa for rendering.

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hi,

i made the renderqueue over “scenes and video editing” from the youtube video sergey postet above.

if i render only one scene it saves the renderoutput on the workstation on “c”,

if i render out the “video editing” animation of the “render scene” where i deleted the saving path…blender begins to render scene1 but does not save and shows "render error, permission denied…cannot save xxx.jpg…

any idea?
renderqueue.blend (1.2 MB)

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Hi,

Check this out:

I see that your Output path is empty.
image

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but if i write "/tmp" or any other foldername in the output path of the “render scene” it saves all 3 files in ONE folder, and not in the declared folders of individual scenes…i would want them to be different…

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What’s your Blender version?

In the video above the author has two different folders named Cam01 and Cam02 respectively, have you tried to do the same?

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Have you looked at command line rendering?
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.5/advanced/command_line/render.html#command-line-rendering

If you add a series of commands to a text document and save it as a .bat file you can run it as a script. You could include moving files to folders as part of the script if needed.
Obviously you can make a list of multiple .blend files to be run one after the other.

Its another way of looking at multi scene rendering.

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3.6.0

blender is not saving to the path given in the respective scenes… only into the path in “video editor”

also it does not keep the declared name…its naming 001,002,003…

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i think if you have separate blender files to render its a good solution, but in my cace with different cams and different collections this method is better…not?

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Gotcha

It may be because of the different Blender versions. In the video the author using 2.9 while yours is 3.6.0

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ok, if you say so…so the question is , can i declare something in blender 3.6 , is it a bug, or why doesnt it work like in 2.9…

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For the moment, may you please download 2.9 and try to do the same exact steps in there to see if it will work or not?

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another thing…

i have constructed my final file, and if i click on render animation, the render window opens, but i see only transparent, no samples progress, nothing . if i wait, and the rendering of the first scene has finished the final render is shown.

any idea?

…hope also for someone to come out with a idea that the renders get saved with the names set in the individual scenes…it a horror to rename all rendered files :persevere: