bpsrender 0.1.40.post2

Description:

bpsrender 0.1.40.post2

This is a standalone python
package as well as a module
which is used under the hood in the Blender Power Sequencer
add-on to speed
up rendering VSE
projects
by spawning Blender processes in background in parallel.


Install
It can be installed as a standalone command line utility via
PiPy:
pip install [--user] bpsrender. Note that you have to have
$HOME/.local/bin included in your $PATH environment variable (on
unix) if you’re going to install the utility locally (using --user
when executing pip).


Usage
After installing the script, get help by writing bpsrender -h:
usage: bpsrender [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-w WORKERS] [-v] [--dry-run] [-s START]
[-e END] [-m] [-c] [-d] [-j]
blendfile

Multi-process Blender VSE rendering - will attempt to create a folder called
`render` inside of the folder containing `blendfile`. Insider `render` another
folder called `parts` will be created for storing temporary files. These files
will be joined together as the last step to produce the final render which
will be stored inside `render` and it will have the same name as `blendfile`

positional arguments:
blendfile Blender project file to render.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output folder (will contain a `bpsrender` temp folder
forrendering parts).
-w WORKERS, --workers WORKERS
Number of workers in the pool (for video rendering).
-v, --verbose Increase verbosity level (eg. -vvv).
--dry-run Run the script without actual rendering or creating
files and folders. For DEBUGGING purposes
-s START, --start START
Start frame
-e END, --end END End frame
-m, --mixdown-only ONLY render the audio MIXDOWN
-c, --concatenate-only
ONLY CONCATENATE the (already) available video chunks
-d, --video-only ONLY render the VIDEO (implies --concatenate-only).
-j, --join-only ONLY JOIN the mixdown with the video. This will
produce the final render


External Dependencies
BPSRender requires

blender
ffmpeg

to be available in the $PATH environment variable in order to work.
In case BPSRender will catch a missing dependency it will throw a
message error similar to this:
BPSRender couldn't find external dependencies:
[v] blender: /home/razvan/.local/bin/blender
[X] ffmpeg: NOT FOUND
Check if you have them properly installed and available in the PATH environemnt variable.
Exiting...


Known Issues

[ ] CTRL-C interrupt leaves subprocesses running in the background
[ ] CTRL-C interrupt doesn’t clean the folders yet