started animation render- how to stop it without losing what has been rendered so far? I have been rendering a 4000 frames animation and it is still going for 3 days now. Can I stop rendering and retain the mov. file (for the part that has been rendered) without risking to lose all the render? this is because I need to submit the animation even if it in progress or partial ..
I don't think it's possible, that's why using jpg instead of movies is convenient, you can stop and relaunch whenever you want. Also, as said by Thibsert, "if Blender or the computer crashes, you don't loose the rendered frames. And it allows multiple computers work on the same animation (using a shared folder and the "placeholders/don't owerwrite" settings)".