I'm rendering a large animation on a laptop. And I need to turn off rendering on certain frames (they are repeated). For example, from 5-10 further from 15-20, 21-25. I plan to simply duplicate the missing frames rather than render them. I got acquainted with blender 1 month ago. sorry if it's a stupid question.
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1$\begingroup$ There is for sure some script or addon for such thing ... Or you can create a dummy files (just copy files numbered in range you want to skip from any existing image sequence) and under Render Output Properties disable Overwrite checkbox. $\endgroup$– vkliduCommented Dec 21, 2023 at 18:58
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$\begingroup$ Thank you, I did the same before reading your answer. I made empty frames and renamed them sequentially. It's good that I only have ≈100 frames. I made shortcuts and used the Tab key to sequentially enter the numbers, 0987, 0988, 0989... It's tedious :)But it works $\endgroup$– Vladimir ZhelovanovCommented Dec 21, 2023 at 20:24
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$\begingroup$ blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15649/… blender.stackexchange.com/questions/1718/… blender.stackexchange.com/questions/39801/… blender.stackexchange.com/questions/217674/… blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5010/… $\endgroup$– Duarte Farrajota Ramos ♦Commented Dec 21, 2023 at 21:37
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$\begingroup$ It's crazy, I honestly searched, but didn't come across all this. Thank you $\endgroup$– Vladimir ZhelovanovCommented Dec 22, 2023 at 15:27
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If you render from the command-line you can pass a list of frames that include ranges, like (assuming your last from frame is 250), omitting the frames you don't want rendered:
blender -b "my.blend" -f 1-4,11-14,26-250
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1$\begingroup$ Thank you. Unfortunately, I have already done as the author wrote above. Fortunately, there are not many frames. I still have to master the world of scripts and Python. I'm pleased with how responsive Blender communities are :) $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 21, 2023 at 20:28
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$\begingroup$ @VladimirZhelovanov -- realize that the above is a windows or linux command line, not a python script. I actually do a lot of my animation rendering using .cmd/.bat files. These can run in the background ("-b" option above), using less memory (no UI appears). Here is the doc $\endgroup$– james_tCommented Dec 22, 2023 at 20:56
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$\begingroup$ This is the first time I've heard this. Very interesting, thanks $\endgroup$ Commented Dec 23, 2023 at 21:12