I often use animations (essentially a For loop on the built in variable FRAME) to generate multi-pont analyses, including screen snapshots as an AVI..
One issue is that when the analysis takes a very long time, with a need to save the avi at the end, and to take care that data files are not overwritten when the loop finishes (usually with a fresh auto-calc back at FRAME 0).
Has anyone managed to automatically detect the completion of the animation recording, so that the AVI can be saved using some separate piece of automation?
Also has anyone, in a similar manner, managed to automate the backup of data files generated during the animation recording.
Some of my data generations take 5 - 8 hrs and are almost the 1000 FRAME (current) limit, so if anything goes wrong its a whole day wasted.
Philip