Generate Different Camera's for Render farms

[mistergiantmedia]

Generate different camera's
Would it be possible to add a button that generates the different camera's in blender. That are used while rendering quilts?

If it would create a collection called quiltcamera and then have cam_01 to cam_49.

This would make it 1000% more simple to render a scene using render farms.

Just render each camera as a sperate sequence and then combine them manually in like After Effects.

It would also fix the issue with the renders stopping after x frames.

[mistergiantmedia]

I am a content creator not a programmer, but with a little help from claude. I created a fork and added the generate camera's button:

https://github.com/mistergiantmedia/AliceLG-SeperateCams/releases/tag/v2.3.1-separate-cameras

Tested and worked!

[mistergiantmedia]

If you add the camera's to Multi-View render (under Output-> Stereoscopy)

The only thing is that the camera suffix is behind the framenumber (After Effects won't like that), but other than that it should work with every standard render farm.

[mistergiantmedia]

DOF was missing, so added that:
https://github.com/mistergiantmedia/AliceLG-SeperateCams/releases

Just did a big 750 frames render, with a high sample rate:
Start: 12/09/2025 21:20
End: 14/09/2025 07:15

Total render time = 24h + 9h 55m = 33 hours 55 minutes ✅

Same project crashed every 26 frames with the quilt render.

edit: added a *.bat to my latest release. That renames:
name_frame_camera.png to name_camera_frame.png

For easy import in After Effects instead of renaming 33K files.

[mistergiantmedia]

Made an importer for After Effects:

First Rename the files with the *.bat then you can import it in After Effects.

Script can take a minute or 2 to run. But much faster than manually ;-)

Both *.bat and *.jsx are found here:
https://github.com/mistergiantmedia/AliceLG-SeperateCams/releases

[BryanChrisBrown]

Thanks for putting this together! I'll take a look and see if there's anything we can do on the plugin side to fix the original crash, this is a neat workflow for sure!

[BryanChrisBrown]

If you're open to it I'd be happy to help walk you through submitting this as a pull request! :)

[regcs]

Hi,

thanks for your request, @mistergiantmedia. For renderfarms, the idea to "bake" cameras is part of #69. Unfortunately, I never got to it. It's a while since I last touched Alice to be honest and I would need to look into the details again. But I can say for sure that there is a logic to generate multiview cameras already implemented. It probably would be best to reuse this, instead of implementing new code.

Did you know that on your local installation you can simply switch this on in the add-on's menu? (see screenshot)

If you have an influence on the add-on settings on your render farm, this could also work on the renderfarm.