Any way to get a multilayer video? So I have an animation that I am trying to render in cycles. It takes about 20 mins per frame (my pc isn't amazing) and is 200 frames. I want to render the animation overnight, close the program and come back to it later.
Question:
Is there any way to close a project after rendering, and be able to edit in the compositor after?
I know that you can do this with MultiLayer EXR files, but thats for pictures. How would I get a multilayer video?
Or is just any way to not have to composite the whole render in one go, and be able to close the program
Sorry in advance if this is already answered, I looked but found nothing.
First render out your animation with the OpenExr Multilayer setting, into an image sequence.



Then load the image sequence into the compositor (can be on a separate blender instance), with the Input -&gt; Image Sequence node



Do whatever composite you desire.



Then in the Output properties tab, set your frame start and end, then change the output format to ffmpeg video. Open up the encoding tab that appears, and change the container and encoding settings to what you want.



Render the animation (Ctrl + F12) (find the output video file in the folder specified under Output. It should be named something like 0001-0250.mkv or similar)