Pay you for Batch Render. Smile all the way to the bank :)

Hello from Australia.

Yes it is me again regarding batch rendering.

I have FF Professional Edition 9, for Windows 10 latest update.

I would like to pay someone to create a batch render program so that I can batch render dozens of files overnight.

Could someone please give me an idea of what you would charge. As I have no idea what the cost would be. Perhaps we could start at $200 Australian. Does that sound like a reasonable offer to start from?

The program would be very similar to the excellent FFBatch Tool which I have been using with FF 7, but it unfortunately crashes.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Paul.

If you are willing to "get your hands dirty" a bit I'd suggest you try modeling out what you want with Knime. I've used it in the past to do chained batch rendering and other odd batch things that FFBatchTool wasn't capable of handling. You can look at the batch job generated by FFBatchTool to get an idea of what you need to model out in Knime. It's fairly simple really just a bunch of XML crafting and out pops a batch script that can be run with the native FF cmd Renderer.

It's diverse enough that I was working on a Knime workflow for auto-upgrading filters but never got very far before I got hugely distracted from that. Still, I think it can be done. Along with a bunch of other cool things like mass generating random presets for filters. You could even do generated filters or freaky machine learning generated filters if you wanted to get really hardcore with it

For basic chain rendering or selective preset rendering, it's not very hard. I think it only took me like half a day at most to get it running. Quite handy though since you can control the output names and locations to whatever degree you desire (per image, filter, preset, etc.). Once you get one going it's easy to port that into other odd rendering tasks.

You may need some extensions or plugins beyond what it comes with to pull it off. Not really sure as I have most of them I wouldn't know if I used only native nodes or others as well. Those are free too though.

Hi Grimbly,

Thank you for your thorough explanation on what to do.

I will look into it.

Best wishes to you and your family and bye for now.

Paul.

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SpaceRay wrote: And how would you use this Knime with filter forge? Sorry that I have no idea of scripting

No worries. I imagine there are a lot of people in the same boat.

Knime can be used separately as a means to generate the XML batch file the FF cmd renderer exe that comes with FF needs for batch operations. Knime is a node-based data processing software that you can use to dynamically form the FF batch XML. Using it you can link in and read the filter files which are a custom XML type file. Then you can form the batch operation around the presets fr om the filter, telling it which presets to render, at what size, wh ere, etc.

If you look at the filter files in something like Notepad++ and do the same for a batch XML file generated by FFBatchTool it should become apparent what needs to be accomplished in Knime to make a customized batch job. After you get Knime to spit out your batch XML file you simply drag and drop it onto the Cmd Render exe file and away it goes.

Knime, it's plugins, and Notepad++ are all free btw

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paulcopeland wrote: I think I might be offering a starting price that's too low. How about $300 AU for starters.

Well, I think that FFcreator deserves the money if it may fullfill all your needs and what you wanted, or if not enough and want more things, pay him to do what you want and need as he knows how to do it

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FFCreator wrote: I have updated FFEasyRender (my batch renderer for FF). It now supports FilterForge till version 9.

Thanks very much for your great help and I would surely pay you a donation but regrettably I am unemployed now, but will do when I can

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SpaceRay wrote: Thanks very much for your great help and I would surely pay you a donation but regrettably I am unemployed now, but will do when I can

Feel free to use FFEasyRender.
If you like it, you can recommend it to others.

Donations are a contribution to the costs for my (hobby) website and to buy upgrades for myself.

I have updated FFEasyRender (my batch renderer for FF).
It now supports FilterForge till version 10 (beta).

Free to use, but I 'll accept donations (hint, see "PayPal button" on my website).

You can download it from my website:

https://www.ipadtouches.com/ffeasyrend...ter-forge/

Thank you Sara for your donation.

It keeps my motivation to publish tools I develop and use myself in the Filter Forge community.

Version 2.2 of FFEasyRender with some new features is in development.
It still needs a major update of the "manual".