Is it possible to recover a timeline animtion or animation render?
snagglebruxism
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So, Last night i spent around 3 hours or more on a timeline animation in DAZ, losing sleep to finish it.
I had left my computer alone to render the animation while I slept, and woke up to my screen and pc not working, which is frequent with this computer. ( I have had it since 2017, it has been through hell.)
I ended up panicking, thinking my pc had given up on me, so i restarted it. I had no thought about the animation, and now it is lost. The file is existing in my Render Libary, but does not open, because it is corrupted.
I did save the character preset and scene before rendering, but I never saved the actual animation scene, so I am unable to try and render it again. (I am unable to save my last render as well, it is not an option for me.)
If there is ANY possible way to recover this, I would be happy to know. If not, I will just accept my loss.
(I am still new to Daz and im not super tech-savvy, so please do not mind if I seem slow lol.)
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So you have the scene, just not the rendered animation? You would haev had a series of PNG files, one per frame, in the Daz Studio temp folder (assuming the crash wasn't down to that running out of space) but unfortuantely rstarting daz Studio will have wiped those. If you haev an AVI or MOV file there may be tools worth trying, but I have no idea which (if any) might work
In the future, especially if your system is unreliable, it would be best to render to an image sequence, then later assemble the images into a finial animation using a different application - that way you can take up where it left off if there is a crash, and perhaps ward off trouble by rendering only a smaller batch of frames then letting the system restart.
That'll really depend on to what extent the duf file is corrupted. You may try to open the duf file with Notepad++ to have a check. Uncompress it if needed. Normally it's rather difficult even impossible to recover a seriously-corrupted duf file...