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3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
edited February 2018 in The Commons

Is there a way to find out exactly how long a render took?

I'm needed exact render times for a product I'm working on but don't want to have to sit and watch the "Elapsed Time" until the render is done. Is there someplace that I can find the render time after a render is finished?

 

Edit: Found it. Help >> Troubleshooting >> hold down control and click: View File Log

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  • agent unawaresagent unawares Posts: 3,513

    It's in the log file.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,774
    Divamakeup said:

    Is there a way to find out exactly how long a render took?

    I'm needed exact render times for a product I'm working on but don't want to have to sit and watch the "Elapsed Time" until the render is done. Is there someplace that I can find the render time after a render is finished?

    It'll be in the log, the same one they ask you for when you write a trouble ticket. Just remember to get the time before doing other activities in DAZ so it will be easy to find towards the bottom of the log.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    nonesuch00 said:
    Divamakeup said:

    Is there a way to find out exactly how long a render took?

    I'm needed exact render times for a product I'm working on but don't want to have to sit and watch the "Elapsed Time" until the render is done. Is there someplace that I can find the render time after a render is finished?

    It'll be in the log, the same one they ask you for when you write a trouble ticket. Just remember to get the time before doing other activities in DAZ so it will be easy to find towards the bottom of the log.

    They've never asked me for a log when I've put in a help ticket. But I found it. :) Thank you! 

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    agent unawares said:

    It's in the log file.

    Thank you!

    I thought that there must be some place that it records it. I remembered where to go in Daz but it took me a while to remember that just going to Help >> Troubleshooting >> View File Log doesn't really do anything. Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lol

    Thanks for the help! :)

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,774
    Divamakeup said:
    agent unawares said:

    It's in the log file.

    Thank you!

    I thought that there must be some place that it records it. I remembered where to go in Daz but it took me a while to remember that just going to Help >> Troubleshooting >> View File Log doesn't really do anything. Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lol

    Thanks for the help! :)

    Log file should get opened in notepad just by LMB or I guess maybe you have osX instead. 

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    edited February 2018
    nonesuch00 said:
    Divamakeup said:
    agent unawares said:

    It's in the log file.

    Thank you!

    I thought that there must be some place that it records it. I remembered where to go in Daz but it took me a while to remember that just going to Help >> Troubleshooting >> View File Log doesn't really do anything. Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lol

    Thanks for the help! :)

    Log file should get opened in notepad just by LMB or I guess maybe you have osX instead. 

    I don't know what osX is, is that Windows 10? That's what I have. :)

    And yeah, I could click on "View File Log" until the cows come home and absolutely nothing happens. But the log finally pops up if you hold down control when you click it. 

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,216

    When it opens Ctrl-a selects everything but more importantly takes you to the end of the file, scroll up from there until you find the render time.

    What I do then is select the line with the time on it, copy it, open the .jpg render file in IrfanView, click on Information and at the bottom of the pop up window is a button for Comment, click to open and paste the copy into that window and save. Doing that means you will always have the time for any render to hand by looking at the Comment. I use it to put other things like lighting settings, environment settings, what is used in the render, etc.. It is very handy when doing test renders as you don't need to remember which settings were changed as they are all saved with the .jpg smiley

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    Fishtales said:

    When it opens Ctrl-a selects everything but more importantly takes you to the end of the file, scroll up from there until you find the render time.

    What I do then is select the line with the time on it, copy it, open the .jpg render file in IrfanView, click on Information and at the bottom of the pop up window is a button for Comment, click to open and paste the copy into that window and save. Doing that means you will always have the time for any render to hand by looking at the Comment. I use it to put other things like lighting settings, environment settings, what is used in the render, etc.. It is very handy when doing test renders as you don't need to remember which settings were changed as they are all saved with the .jpg smiley

    I've not heard of IrfanView, I'll have to look into that. :) Thank you for the great suggestions! That kind of info can be pretty helpful, particularly (as you said) when doing test renders. :)

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,280
    edited February 2018

    In Windows 10, if you just need to check the time without copying it, hover the mouse pointer over the DS icon on the taskbar, then when the small DS window icon shows up, move the mouse pointer over the window, and the status window for the latest render will show up:


    ds_iray_render_time.jpg
    577 x 591 - 104K
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  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147
    Divamakeup said:
    Fishtales said:

    When it opens Ctrl-a selects everything but more importantly takes you to the end of the file, scroll up from there until you find the render time.

    What I do then is select the line with the time on it, copy it, open the .jpg render file in IrfanView, click on Information and at the bottom of the pop up window is a button for Comment, click to open and paste the copy into that window and save. Doing that means you will always have the time for any render to hand by looking at the Comment. I use it to put other things like lighting settings, environment settings, what is used in the render, etc.. It is very handy when doing test renders as you don't need to remember which settings were changed as they are all saved with the .jpg smiley

    I've not heard of IrfanView, I'll have to look into that. :) Thank you for the great suggestions! That kind of info can be pretty helpful, particularly (as you said) when doing test renders. :)

    Irfanview is a great little free image viewer/editor with surprisingly robust features.  It can do all sorts of basic editing, but for me the best feature it has is the ability to do batch resize/conversion of multiple files at once.  When I render I run them at a stupidly large resolution, then when I'm ready to start posting them I just open one of the .PNG files in irfanview, pull up the batch conversion utility and set it to convert to .JPG and resize them all down to the resolution I want, all at the same time.  You can even tell it where to put the new files, and rename all of them as well if you want to.  It's a major time saver for me. Plus it's hands down the best image viewer I've ever come accross for browsing through a image collection.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,216

    In the batch action you can also add a watermark overlay image to all the selected images at the same time.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,079

    @Divamakeup  "Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lolThanks for the help! :)"

    Doesn't work that way for me (Win7). Staight click on the menu item, like everything else.

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479

    About using IrfanView, I included it in my Map Transfer tutorial and have some step-by-step instructions for batch conversions here. If anyone is interested.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    fastbike1 said:

    @Divamakeup  "Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lolThanks for the help! :)"

    Doesn't work that way for me (Win7). Staight click on the menu item, like everything else.

    Perhaps it's a Windows 10 thing.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    @dragotx @Fishtails @L'Adair Thank you guys for the info on IrfanView. It sounds like a really helpful program. I just downloaded and installed it. :)

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,533
    Divamakeup said:
    fastbike1 said:

    @Divamakeup  "Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lolThanks for the help! :)"

    Doesn't work that way for me (Win7). Staight click on the menu item, like everything else.

    Perhaps it's a Windows 10 thing.

    Nope - I have windows 10 and I don't need to do more than click on the log to get it to open.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,216
    Divamakeup said:

    @dragotx @Fishtails @L'Adair Thank you guys for the info on IrfanView. It sounds like a really helpful program. I just downloaded and installed it. :)

    Don't forget to download the plugins too.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    scorpio said:
    Divamakeup said:
    fastbike1 said:

    @Divamakeup  "Strange that you have to hold down control when clicking on the "View File Log" to get it to actually do anything. lolThanks for the help! :)"

    Doesn't work that way for me (Win7). Staight click on the menu item, like everything else.

    Perhaps it's a Windows 10 thing.

    Nope - I have windows 10 and I don't need to do more than click on the log to get it to open.

    Whelp, I guess my PC must be special then... 

    The log doesn't open for me without holding down Control and clicking it.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    Fishtales said:
    Divamakeup said:

    @dragotx @Fishtails @L'Adair Thank you guys for the info on IrfanView. It sounds like a really helpful program. I just downloaded and installed it. :)

    Don't forget to download the plugins too.

    Thank you. Where can I find the plugins? :)

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,216

    The Plugins button is below the Download one.

    http://www.irfanview.com/

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    Fishtales said:

    The Plugins button is below the Download one.

    http://www.irfanview.com/

    Oh I missed that! lol Thank you, Fishtales. :)

  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,276
    Divamakeup said:

    Is there a way to find out exactly how long a render took?

    I'm needed exact render times for a product I'm working on but don't want to have to sit and watch the "Elapsed Time" until the render is done. Is there someplace that I can find the render time after a render is finished?

     

    Edit: Found it. Help >> Troubleshooting >> hold down control and click: View File Log

    Thanks

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