how find the "missing frames"


#1

After effects is complaining about some missing frames, when loading an image sequence.
The images are ALL there, no real missing frame.
All image files have nearly same size, so i cannot say from that, which files are corrupt.
The files are EXR, so i cannot view through them with fcheck or something alike.
The files are quite big and it takes AE quite some time to load a single frame to display, so i cannot go through the timeline frame by frame.
The frames were rendered on different machines, and since then other stuff has been rendered, so i cannot check the maya render log for errors.

Is there ANY WAY to get informed of which are the missing frames?


#2

Do you know which machines rendered which frames? That may help you out, as a specific machine may have been causing the problem.


#3

Not really. Unfortunately AE is rather dumb on that end. Just render the sequence, add a Timecode effect set to frames and set the logging on the render queue to Extra per Frame info.

Mylenium


#4

Slightly off topic, but somewhat related, what about these:

  • Missing effects. Any way to pinpoint the layers that have the missing effects? Sometimes I don’t want to install them, I just want to remove the layers.

  • Incompatible effects with multi-processing. Would it kill AE to tell me the name of the effect that is incompatible with multi-processing, instead of me having to move through my project with a fine-tooth comb? I’ve seen the list of incompatible effects; it’s a little annoying to have to memorize it, or alternatively, look it up every time AE spits this warning out.


#5

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