a seemingly Basic feature is missing. Pause / Resume
... if there's software that I can download (like everyone mentioned above) that will pause the FF render process, thus "hacking" FF into pausing the render, then yes ... in my eyes, it seems simple enough to implement within FF.
Same with batchrendering (which has been asked for, pleaded for ... for years). FF's solution is suggest software alternatives but never address the issues that would make life easier for the user ...
Here's an idea ... instead of FF being silent on these topics,...
Command-Line Renderer Other Options?
Author: xirja. Can the Command-Line Renderer control more than the preset and what is listed here: http://www.filterforge.com/more/help/Miscellaneous/CommandLineRenderer.html
Are there any other controls/sliders/etc that can be given in the xml file?
I see that Sjeti's and Totte's batch processing methods creates several new .ffxml files with changing presets to be called from the .xml file, but is there a way to access the controls without having to create a series of .ffxml file with changed presets?
I'm trying to create a ...
Beta 10 - update batchrenderer
... preset that is added to Library filters downloaded and that have factory presets
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Yes, correct, you can't render any custom preset that is added to Library filters. This is not a limitation of FFEasyRender. The standard Filter Forge commandline batchrenderer can't do this either, "by design", see these posts:
Post 1 (https://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=15506&MID=150867&sphrase_id=4752301#message150867)
Post 2 (https://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=15551&MID=151299&sphrase_id=4752301#message151299)
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How Do I?
... Photoshop and change it to 300DPI all over again. Sounds like extra work to me."
It matters to me in the ready-to-use renderings business too and we convert to 300 PPI on most of our files.
Yes, setting the DPI is sometimes required to meet ... ... whatever. You can save time by creating an action in Photoshop to change to 300 DPI without resampling and then run it as a batch on your files all at once. Should only take a few seconds each. That's how I do it.
Request for Render Farm: multiple command line instances
... make it public (before I couldn't as it was developed for a company I worked for in the past).
FFFarm will allow you filter sequences, select filters and presets, choose formats, etc. Great to create your own filtered videos (like using Photoshop's batch process but way cooler).
But there is still one extra thing I would like to get, and this is the ability to run multiple instances of the command line FF (something similar to what After Effects does when rendering)
The main reason is the full processing power of our machines is never used when rendering a filter, so why not running 2, 4, 8 instances of FF to get all done much faster? I can even check the ram and CPU load and run more or less instances ...
Various GUI Suggestions - recent filters & automatic batching
... be really nice to have in the 'Image Creation' side of FilterForge (Undo/Redo works in the Filter Editor only). There have been heaps of occasions when I've been twiddling parameters and wanted to go back a few steps...
3. Automatic Background Render Queue
I've been generating a lot of 8000x8000 images with some slow filters and lots of antialiasing; these take awhile (hours).
Currently when I press 'Save Image As' in Stand-alone mode, FilterForge can't be used again until the image is finished....
Any way to animate a batch process of FF?
Author: GMM. " where you can specify a SERIES of images with a varying filter each time"
I'm not sure I understand you correctly but the batchrenderer allows you to specify any number of images or filters. Assume you have source images 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg that need to be processed with filters 1.ffxml, 2.ffxml and 3.ffxml, then you'll need a task file like this:
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BatchRendering Wrapper
Author: ThreeDee. Hi MachinesInMotion,
I attempted to use this batch tool but it doesn't run and I cannot figure out why.
I have extracted the zip in the folder C:/admin/ffbat and have a ... ... images\* AnimatedLensFlares 0
With that I get the result:
Usage: ffbat source filtername preset
Filter Forge command line renderer, version 3.014.
(c) 2006-2012 Filter Forge Inc. All rights reserved.
Professional Edition
License Name: ThreeDee.
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Carl's Corner :)
... for animation and NTSC output."
They charge more for their HD and all I would need to do is set ff to 1920x1920 and set up an crop action in PS. I will look at Particle Illusion but I can make some very pretty things in FF - if I can get it to batchrender with my slider values. :|
"CorvusCroax wrote:
if you read the article here's what they say they did: "
Yes, it was a good article, but there is no doubt that these are my plasma balls. :)
http://www.filterforge.com/upload/forum/1d8/cgCpB1....
"Virtual Tab" with no preview rendering (export only)
... no UI rendering, and select filters and presets/settings. Without rendering, it's possible that there would be little overhead per tab - allowing dozens or more of tabs to be prepared. Then, via File > Export you could kick off the virtual tabs to render for output as you would normally.
I think this could serve as a very adequate 'batch' concept, especially if you combined it with some kind of "Saved Tab(s)" concept. If you were able to export/import a tab or tabs via XML then you could almost hook this into an automated pipeline. If that XML was also compatible with ...
Please, how to batchrender with command líne all presets of filter ?
... sometimes over 3, 4 minutes. Because you wanted transparency enabled - it should be mentioned that the original presets have no transparency, so the results had full opacity."
Yes, I know that it is not fast, and this is why I want to do it with batchrendering so I leave it rendering until it finishes whenever it could be by night
Yes, it is needed transparency to be able to combine multiple parts together and thta that you can be able to see through them as it happens already in the filter but removing ...
BatchRender!
Author: Lucato. Yup Michael, I'd love it too. At least from one filter where we would select the presets we want to render and select with RMB to render in batch. It would save at once all selected presets. Maybe it would open up a new window asking stuffs as Save Folder, File Format, File name string and sequence number.
Still talking about rendering, another stuff I had mentioned in another thread is ...
Batch GUI Tool for Windows
... and varying scratch or some such). It keeps crashing with a memory error.
I'll try animating some other parameters but for now I'm a *bit* disappointed (since the animation of parameters is kind of important for, well, animation, which is all a batchrenderer is really needed for).
I assume the command line interface doesn't just give the option to vary "Variation", which is the MOST useful variation to be able to animate. Unless there's a way for yours to do this, which I don't quite ...
batches for all
... names? I have checked them a number of times and put any folder names that had special characters (such as spaces) inside quotes.
I also created a new blank source image file in case it needed a source image.
But I get nothing as a result of the batch, not even an error message.
The extent of output I get is (in the Command prompt):
"Filter Forge command line renderer, version 3.009.
(c) 2006-2010 Filter Forge Inc. All rights reserved.
Professional Edition
License Name: ThreeDee
Usage FFXCmdRenderer-x86-SSE2.exe [-l log_file_name_prefix] task_file"
And then the C:> prompt shows up again.
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Vladimir Golovin, please read...
... understand all your reasoning except for the problems that preclude your consideration of a slideshow feature. This is largely due to the incomplete and misleading description of the feature I provided earlier. The way I should have described it is a batchrender feature to provide material suitable for building a slideshow.
You are absolutely correct in describing such an undertaking as time-intensive, but as a scheduled task that ran at night or during other idle time it might work quite nicely. All ...
Questions about using Sjeiti´s FF Batch online application
... any of the settings to make it to work.
I am not interested in animation, and only in still images.
Although the bad thing about this online application is that this is oriented and mainly used for making an animation, and not really thought for batch processing.
I mean that this uses just ONE source image, as is the same way as the command line renderer that also does not allow to have multiple sources images wh ere the same filter effect could be applied.
SpiralGraphics announces Genetica 3.0!
... going against the tide with the new EULA.
"StevieJ wrote:
FF V2 will make G3 look like a wart on a tic's arse.....right Vlad???"
My thoughts exactly!!:D Actually, by just adding more noises and patterns (not to mention the most awaited batchrendering) would be enough to get our creative juices rushing to add more filters to the library.
Proper batch tools = instant FF4 upgrade
Author: Skybase. Actually part of the truth is that if you're doing animation in Maya, by default you'd be using "BatchRender" which in the end for more specific options are available externally under command line which you have to make .bat files for. This is pretty "industry standard" as my buddies in business practically do this every time they need ...
Script> Counter/Incrementer
... execution. Gray inputs affect components before the sample collection start in the rendering process (i.e. at initialization time). So we can't change gray inputs from sample to sample, only from full rendering to rendering and only manually (or via a batchrendering script). We don't have control scripts either, but even if we get that at some point, they will most likely not support per sample change (their connection context of ins and outs probably remain gray).
Also you have to consider the difference ...
Top 5 "Fixes"......
Author: StevieJ. "jffe wrote:
1) More blending modes. 2) Simple rotate. 3) Simple zoom. 4) More mapping inputs on components. 5) Batchrendering"
Those are good ones.....especially more blending modes and alternative mapping. So much more could be done with blending..... :)
"Crapadilla wrote:
3. that steve quits posting redundant threads.
+1.
How about a "Top ...
