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Rendering video to 12 K doesn't work [closed]

I'm trying to get a huge composition exported to vídeo. Normally, I use the ffmpeg video, with mpgeg-4 and H.264, which works like a charm. This time, I guess because of the huge size (12K) I can't ...
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Hello world attempt at composition with doughnut tutorial, what am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to composite a set of rendered frames on top of a photo of the beach. This works if I'm rendering the whole 3D scene, but I was trying to use the strip of pre-rendered images, in OpenEXR ...
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Can I have a transparent background AND a reflection of the object below in eevee?

I am trying to create a 3D animated element for a video, which would work best if I can have the object on a transparent background, yet still somehow render a reflection of it below. Specifically, a ...
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How to render background image for camera with Cycles

I don't want to add it as a plane because then my scene lights affect the image and it's going to be hard to make it follow camera movements. I saw on Youtube that if you use some nodes you can get ...
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How to use images and videos for compositing in Blender?

My question is about compositing.... I'm really new to Blender but I just noticed that it has a compositing system and that's great. Is there any way to import an image or video that I have already ...
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I am having a very hard time with compositing

I have tracked drone footage, and imported a building model to put in my scene. In viewport shading, everything looks as it should. in rendered view, the movie clip is not taking up the full camera ...
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my camera track stops tracking before reaching the last frame of my video

I am trying to track found footage of a drone shot, the camera movement is very smooth. My pattern size is 40, my search size is 100. The track stops tracking around 3/4 of the way through the clip, ...
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Anti-Aliasing in Eevee has no effect (still jagged edges)

I'm wondering why anti-aliasing is not working for me in Eeevee using Blender 3.6.1. See the minimal reproducible Blender file here. Here are some examples. First, this is what I get with 256 render ...
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Cycles Bloom isn't working

So I watched a few tutorials to create a glowing bloom effect around objects, but my object doesn't glow even though I copied everything.
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Change Compositing Nodes for all Scenes

Is it possible to use one Compositing "Configuration" for all Scenes? I have about 40 Scenes in my current Project and need to make a few not-so-small changes to the compositing. It's the ...
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Can't render shadows the way I want

I'm setting up render layers and I am stuck on something I know is really silly. I just want to render a background plane where 2 objects casts shadows to. My goal is to have 3 different image ...
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How to select a material or object using the cryptomate node if it is a volume

I have a cube in the scene that I have assigned a volumetric material to. Why can't I select it using the cryptomate node when composing a scene? All materials and objects in the scene are displayed, ...
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DiffInd RenderLayer pass shows part of texture [duplicate]

Trying to save "DiffInd" pass of composition layer render pass as image. But I see part of the object texture being rendered. Attached is the texture image and Render pass composition shader
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Diffuse indirect pass shows part of texture

Trying to save "DiffInd" pass of composition layer render pass as image. But I see part of the object texture being rendered. Attached is the texture image and Render pass composition shader....
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Transmission pass is affecting final render, even though the pass is not being used in the Compositor

In one of my projects, I have set my compositor such that it has a multi-pass denoising system. In this project, I am not using any transmission or volumetric related assets, so I did not use those ...
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Alpha Bug in the Compositor

I have a problem in the compositor. The alpha looks kinda glitched. The only way to solve it was to convert the file to TIFF. Is this a knewn Bug in this Blender Version (3.6.1)? When i open it in ...
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Driver not working anymore when appending custom node group

I am creating a custom node group for the Compositor, and I would like to control the size of a cloud texture with a driver within the node group. However, after appending the node group to a new ...
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Compositor and Greenscreen video with 3D Background

I was removing the greenscreen of a video in the compositor. But I don't understand how I make the video show up in the 3D Scene. I tried Import Images as Planes but it still is showing with the ...
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Can anyone tell me the best alternate to Geolayers addon for Aftereffects in blender

I want to animate maps as it is like in this video created using Adobe After effects and Geolayers Plugin. Maps with Malaysia highlighted I have searched through Youtube but failed to find the right ...
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Compositor not showing image layers, how do I fix this?

I haven't really messed with compositor before trying a tutorial. The focus of the tutorial came out fine, a visualizer for audio, but there's some images I'd like to be visible as well. The uploader ...
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No audio in rendered video if audio is in sequencer while video stuff is in Compositor

I noticed that if I use the compositor, I cannot get anything in the Sequencer included in the output even if Sequencer is ticked in the lower right corner. But that's okay for the Video and Image ...
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Use bpy update View Node from compositor nodes before saving

I want to save edits from the compositor using the viewer node to make edits to an image without re-rendering, however, it appears that because the nodes are also set up in python, this code does not ...
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How do I seamlessly blend in one rendered image with a background video?

I have this render of an animation of a hanging head which I composite on top of a video using Alpha Over node. It looks like the face has just been slapped onto the video, and I am unsure what ...
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Blender compositor invert results in incorrect values

I would like to invert the values in my image in the compositor node, but as you can see from the output shown in the image below, the inverted image appears blown out. You can clearly see this in the ...
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Compositing creating a nice edge around masked layer

I've masked the foreground arm in the below image, i'm trying to get a nice edge. It's either too sharp with a minimal dialate/erode with around a minus 10 pixel feather when seen above light ...
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Soft Light. Photoshop vs Blender

I'm trying to move my image processing workflow from photoshop to blender. And I would like to get identical results using basic techniques for different image editors. One of the tricks I often use ...
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Volumetrics + Composition creates lots of noise in cycles

Why does my render look like this? What setting do I need to increase to solve this? This started happening when I added the volumetrics. Here is my nodemap: And here are my render settings: This is ...
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Glare effect different when rendered than from viewport

No idea why this happens, the glare/lense effect I added looks fine in the viewport with the Compositor enabled, but when I render it looks way different : Viewport Display : Render Display : I'm ...
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Use Node Format - is this option redundant, or what?

Even though I use the File Output Node frequently, there's an option I've been ignoring but finally have to ask about: Use Node Format The File Output Node seems to work just fine without this box ...
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Render objects always in front of others (priority in front?)

In some video games there is a feature where nametags of friends are shown through walls. I want to emulate that kind of style in the render, without using holdout and doing a composite on that ...
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How to make a shadow render as a different material

Is there a way to make a shadow render with a different material in cycles? I'm trying to make an animation that uses a different material for shadowed regions from a single light source. The material ...
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"Noisy Image" connector is missing in compositing?

When I tried to denoise the image, following the tutorial. There is no "noisy image" connector in compositing. I've enabled the "denoising data". Thanks for your advice in advance.
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Merge more than 2 layers in Compositor

I have 3 balls in the scene and need each of them to be lighted from his own light. I managed to separate things in 3 layers. But when I try to merge all 3 layers in Compositor, they are half-...
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Compositing 1 light through an object?

In this scene, I want Ball 1 to be hit by both lights A+B, but light B to pass through Ball 2 (not casting a shadow on Ball 1) Ball 2, I want to be hit by light A, but not light B So how do I make ...
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How to create a Render Background with cartoon bean sunlight for composite

I want the cartoon sunlight in the background for a composite like this: Please don't forget to demonstrate pictures, gifs, or upload blends files. to make it easy to understand.
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How do I create dot texture to use for halftone in Blender's Compositor?

I want to create a halftone effect in the Blender's Compositor, and for that, I require a dot texture that can be easily achieved through the voronoi texture node but not through the voronoi texture ...
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Composited render missing occlusion with white outline

I am trying to learn how to render out elements in different layers. For some reason I am getting a couple issues when I attempt to composite 2 layers. Below is a combined render of all elements, and ...
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Smoke is Noisy with background image

I am trying to composite a smoke simulation to a background image, but some of the smoke is noisy in thinner areas. How do I fix the issue?
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Compositing: scale without cropping?

In Compositing, picture scaling leads to image cropping, is it possible to avoid? After that I also apply translating, so my final result fits usual render output size, but during the processing I ...
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How exactly do Bake Margins work and can they be duplicated in post process?

When you Bake an image with Margins, it fills some area outside the edge of the UV island. For example, here is a section of a Normal map with a margin of 10 on the left, and 0 on the right. If you ...
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Grease Pencil Object disappears in Compositing

I've added a denoise node to my compositing set-up, and ever since my grease pencil object no longer renders. I can see it in the rendering process, but after the compositing step, it disappears: ...
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Blender Render Layers acting like a holdout when it shouldn't be

I'm rendering out a tire with speed lines... In my view port everything looks fine but when rendering with the compositor and viewing the png my emission is masked when its not directly on top of the ...
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See an object only through another object in eevee

I want to make a portal effect in which you can only see objects through another object in blender. I have found out how to do this in cycles, but not in eevee. I am okay if I have to do it in the ...
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Compositing - Glare Effect/Node in Viewport different than Render

When I try to use the glare in the compositing editor, the live viewport as well as single frames will render showing these RGB reflections/glare that I want. The problem is, when I save the photo, ...
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How to get Vector Length in the compositor?

I have a Material node setup that processes color and I want to recreate that node tree for the Compositor. Unfortunately the setup relies on a Vector Math : Length ...
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how to transfer group node between projects including keyframes

Can I get a bit of help on how to transfer group node between projects including keyframes? I have managed to do it with grouping nodes > save as > append from new project. But I didn't get the ...
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How to composite "moving texture" for oil painting or watercolor filter?

I am seeking an effect for composites that creates a moving texture noise, such as oil painting. For reference, see the example below: or Please don't forget to demonstrate pictures, gifs, or upload ...
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How to use blackbody node in compositor?

How to use blackbody node in compositor? It is in Cycles shader nodes: Searching for "blackbody" in compositor has no results.
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Is there a way to create a texture atlas from an animation?

I would like to be able to create a texture atlas from the rendered frames of an animation. In my case, the animation will be 6 images that are 1024x1024 pixels, and I would like to make a 3x2 atlas ...
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I used to be able to get volumetric clouds to look decent but haven't been able to for this render

Using 3.1.0, optiX albedo/normal denoising just isn't cutting it for my volumetric clouds (which use noise > voronoi > absolute > map range > color ramp > mix value between a clear ...
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