Philipp Schröppel wrote:
How do you prerender? As DPX? As TIFF? Does Fusion/you use this prerenders when rendering the final comp?
I usually prerender to EXR. It's assumed to be linear, so there's seldom any question about whether it needs a color conversion. It also compresses better than most other possible intermediate formats.
Yes, the prerenders remain in place when rendering the final comp. There's no reason to do all that processing again.
I have a little script that creates a prerender Saver and disables all other Savers. The new Saver has a pair of buttons: One disables the Saver and re-enables all Savers that the script previously turned off, and the other creates a Loader and automatically connects it to everything the Saver was previously connected to, so you don't have to worry about accidentally breaking a connection. Don't hit that button until at least the first and last frames of the prerender are saved, or the resulting Loader will have the wrong trim points.
This is designed for the Muse VFX pipeline, so it will require some changes to work elsewhere. One day I'll refactor it to be easier to modify, but for now you'll just have to make do. The areas most likely to need changes are:
Lines 82 - 105, which do some folder name substitution, along with creating exceptions for a couple of projects that don't conform to the rest of our pipeline.
Lines 107 - 120, which parse out the version number of the comp. If your naming convention isn't shotname_version#.subversion#.comp, then this area might need some adjustment.
Lines 144 - 148, which construct the path to where the prerender will be saved.
It's a Tool Script, so it goes into the Scripts/Tool folder, and it is run by right-clicking a tool and choosing Script > Muse_PrecompThis