Post #2111187

For future reference, the following is how I did the rendering and the animation. Rendering the frames in an unhurriedly manner while pushing a notification to phone (using Ntfy) to keep track of the rendering progress: for frame in {1..150..7} # Increase the starting number gradually after each round do if [ -f "./frame_$frame.jpg" ]; then echo "File $frame exists, skipping" else echo "Frame $frame will be rendered" curl -k -X "PUT" https://$NTFY_HOST/blender -d "Started rendering frame $frame..." sleep 1 blender -b $BLENDER_PROJ -o './frame_#.jpg' -F JPEG -f $frame -E CYCLES -t 1 LAST_RET=$? echo "Finished rendering frame $frame with retcode $LAST_RET" curl -k -X "PUT" https://$NTFY_HOST/blender -d "Finished rendering frame $frame with retcode $LAST_RET" sleep 1 fi done curl -k -X "PUT" https://$NTFY_HOST/blender -d "Finished the entire Blender rendering"Generating a video out of the available frames: ffmpeg -r 15 -f concat -safe 0 -i <(find -iname "*.jpg" -not -size 0 -printf "file '$PWD/%f'\n" | sort -h -t_ -k 2) -r 15 -c libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 20 lapse.mp4 # smaller crf will lead to bigger files, adjust as needed