This week was my final week to complete the two week task of rendering out my base render without any graphic narration overlay added. This required a lot of waiting for the render, planning ahead and troubleshooting, meaning there wasn’t too much practical work to document this week.
I decided to render my scene out by using the render farm at university, as it was taking way too much time and power on my laptop. I am really glad I allowed myself a week for this task as there were multiple troubleshooting issues I had to overcome. These included:
- Making my file paths all linked for my textures when using the remote desktop ready for the render. – (Overcome by editing file paths).
- Time. My render was estimated to take five days. – (Luckily it only took two days).
- Realising I didn’t have the correct animation rendering on one part – (Overcome by re-rendering these 100 or so frames to the same file path and writing over them).
- EXR images wouldn’t render into an mov file in Nuke. – (Overcome by uploading the images onto my own laptop and doing it directly from Nuke on there).
- Size of all images was huge, meaning transferring them was difficult and time consuming. – (No resolution to this but forward thinking of allowing more time than planned).
Eventually, I was able to submit these images to nuke, and add colour correction, and render this out swiftly.
However, I realised that there were frames missing, that must have been lost in the many layers of transfers that happened. My task for next week is to re render on Nuke the mov with the missing frames which will be easy to add to the file directory when I run a script on what the missing frames are and repeat the process of writing the sequence out as an mov, using the same Nuke script I have made previously.
After this has been completed, I am going to start working on the overlay of graphics and speech narration.
While I was waiting for the render this week, I researched the best software to do this on. I came to the conclusion I would be using DaVinci Resolve, as this will have professional looking results, has the elements I need for this project, and I am familiar with this software.