What the difference between batch render and render sequence? And more...

[Anonymous]

Hello friends...

Finally I get to the render settings and it seems that 'batch render' is producing pictures with Arnold watermark. However, I've tried rendering through 'render sequence' and all renders have no watermark here.

So what the difference between them? Is quality of a sequence worse that a batch?

And I have another question, it seems that sequence render doesn't save pictures directly and places them only in 'render view'. How to save a lot of pictures from the render view to any folder?

Please help...

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Batch render is the usual way to render in Maya. It will kick off the render in the background which can allow you to work on other scenes (similar to command line rendering but in the UI). Doing so requires a licensed version of any render engine and will watermark the renders if a license isn’t found. Batch rendering is also the methodology used when a network render is kicked off on a farm.

Render Sequence will do the same as batch rendering, but will write the frames to the render view, effectively locking the application up until the render is done. This was implemented after Solid Angle was acquired and Arnold became the default render engine. Support for this feature is up to the render engine. Render Sequence can not be used for network rendering.

Check images/tmp for your renders. You can set an output path for them, however, in the option box for Render Sequence.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-79387725-EE83-4383-90E2-4BAE28B4EA4C

Cheers,
Mike

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Render Sequence works only from within Maya, there is no quality dfifference.

The images will be saved inside the project folder.