Best way to render composited animation with frames already pre-rendered?
Hello! So I motiontracked a stock video and then made an animation with a tiger crossing the frame. Rendered it with needed shadows on transparent background so it would be easy to composite later on. Now what I have is image sequence of the animation in the compositor with few adjustments. I want to render the composited result but I don't know what would be the best way. By pressing "render animation" it starts to re-render the tiger on the transparent background and not taking in mind any changes that I did in compositor. I have also checked "compositing" in the scene settings under post-processing. The viewer node and composite node has the same node output attached. I would also like to note that I am not using render layers node as I have an exr image sequence ready, so I don't see why it would re-render the whole thing if I am using image sequence node as input. What am I missing? Any help will be appreciated, thank you
Posted Dec 28, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC
Not sure about other folks but I generally had a 2nd blend file for VSE and compositing the frames from my first blend that rendered the frames.
Always seemed weird that this was necessary, but it seemed neat enough.
Someone more up to date on 2.8/2.9 might tell us there is now a better way!
Thank you for the reply! This might work for me. It seems odd to me too, that is why it had not crossed my mind! Re rendering the animaton is a hell of a process when cycles are involved :D