Error'd Frames Multi-Machine

[trashcaneron]

Does anyone have a good solution to find blank frames or "Media Pending" frames when looking at a rendered image sequence?

I have a few 6600 frame renders that I use BG Render w/ Multi-Machine. Every once in a while, the renderer has an issue and  produces an error'd frame (red frame, media pending). This isn't a source content issue, but rather a render issue. This is easy to solve (I.e., re-render the messed up frame). Trying to find those frames is difficult though - if you blink during a preview, you might miss it. Any ideas to speed up the search process (I.e., search for all red frames or search for blank frames etc).

[David Arbor]

I believe there are tools to help with things like these, but I'm not sure if they fit your situation. Also, I can't recall the names of any, but I do have a manual, but somewhat helpful suggestion:

Open Explorer or Finder at full screen, show your image sequence as thumbnails, make the thumbnails as small as you can tolerate, then scroll down or page down. You should see red or blank frames pretty quickly in a sea of conformity. If you have two monitors you could even stretch the window out.

[Martin_Ritter]

If your error'd frames have 0 byte, it's very easy to find them using Explorer (and for sure Finder, too). Also, you can find those faulty frames quiet easily, if you open the sequence in Premiere and let it render from start to end (tested on CC2018). It also gives you a nice dialog which exact frame is failing.

I recommend using RenderGarden | by Mekajiki  instead of BG Renderer. RG has built-in error checks to prevent this situation (unfortunately no 0 byte check...).

*Martin

[trashcaneron]

I use the 0 byte trick and the scroll through trick but when you've got a ton of frames to preview it can be cumbersome via the scroll. I did not know about the premiere trick. That is incredibly helpful.

Gotta try render garden!

Thanks guys.