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Will the animation finish rendering overnight?
Round duration times frame rate up to whole frames. Each machine handles one frame at a time. Round frames divided by machines up to whole batches, then multiply by frame time. Negative time remaining indicates an overrun. Queue and transfer delays are excluded.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Frames to render 1,000
- Animation duration
- 40 s
- Output frame rate
- 25 frames/s
- Average render time per frame
- 45 s
- Identical render machines
- 4 machines
- Available render window
- 3 hours
Other results
- Elapsed render time
- 187.5 min
- Window remaining
- -7.5 min
Use your own figures
Allow for the final partially filled batch of frames. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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