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Hi, blender freezing is normal, as it does the calculation in the background, so that it's faster for you

The settings are just file settings, once you save it, you can share it anywhere uh want to

What error are you getting?

@@PidgeonTools Hi ! i have this error with SID : Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\ASUSROG3D\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.1\scripts\addons\SuperImageDenoiser\Temporal\SID_Render_Denoise_Temporal_BG.py", line 77, in execute SID_Create.execute(self, context) File "C:\Users\ASUSROG3D\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.1\scripts\addons\SuperImageDenoiser\SuperImageDenoiser.py", line 83, in execute sid_standard_tree = create_sid_denoiser_standard() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\ASUSROG3D\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.1\scripts\addons\SuperImageDenoiser\SID_QualityStandart.py", line 16, in create_sid_denoiser_standard sid_tree.inputs.new("NodeSocketColor", "Noisy Image") ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'CompositorNodeTree' object has no attribute 'inputs'. Thank you for you help

Thanks! You can greatly help us out by spreading the word!

@@PidgeonTools I'll do what I can 😊

Hi, have you rendered the images with step 1 first?

@@PidgeonTools yes I have. I rendered all the frames in exr and they are correctly placed in the “processing” (I think that was the name) folder. The thing I’m missing is the key vector, but I don’t know what that means

If you open one of the exr files in the processing folder, does it contain the vector pass?

Because that's just for the benchmarking process. After it completed, you can render as usual

@@PidgeonTools How does Benchmarking help with rendering? What is the use? Will it have any impact? Ask sincerely

Hi, that is explained in the video. It estimates the best settings for your scene.

Hi, what blender version and ptb version are you using?

@@PidgeonTools Blender 4.1 on Mac M1 Sonoma 14.5 and latest PTB. Fresh install.

When you did step 1, did it create some folders?

You just do the benchmark, and after it finished, you render as usual.

@@PidgeonTools Thank You so much 👀. I was wondering why the benchmark folder had all the graphs and how'd I 😐 use them.. that's why this confusion was about 😄. Thank You again ✨

Hi, The "Pidgeon Tool Bag" is the successor to the standalone addon "Super Image Denoiser". The standalone addon supports up to blender 3.6. All development has been continued, including 4.1 support, in the pidgeon tool bag

The noise settings are used just as usual as well. Denoising itself is bypassed. You should not use a noise threshold of 1, that's ludicrously high. For previews I use 0.1

@@PidgeonTools I figured it bypassed all the settings thats why I asked was just giving you the information. Thats not what I would render anything at normally. Love it tho the Temporal Denoise is very nice.

This is the very first test I have made. It should work with other movement just as well. If you have an animation you'd like to try it out on, let's say 30 frames, feel free to join the server so I can show you

That's a common issue when the gap between two frames is to high for the interpolation to guess the missing frames. Then you'll get this kind of headache inducing micro-stuttering, but it's still a good demonstration what frame interpolation can do and finally someone created an addon to make use of this inside Blender. Good job. 👍🙃

Yes, as @thefellowshipoftherenderin677 said, this happens when there's a lot happening between frames. This example is a very difficult one. As it's relatively slow movement in a very busy environment. Allowing you to see everything that's going on. If you add motion blur. Everything will be fine!

Thank you! This is our very first public version of the super frame interpolator. There is still a bunch of things we are looking for to improve

@@PidgeonTools I'm curious to see how the addon improves over time. If it pushes the quality bar as high as your toolbag did with temporal denoising I can see a bright future for this part of the addon too. 🙂

Linked in the video description is the Pidgeon Tool Bag, it is compatible with blender 4.0

Hi, we used to have octane support, however octane itself does not have the necessary passes to have temporal denoising support. To my knowledge at least. We tried to implement it, however, due to the constant differences between the octane build and the regular blender version, we would need to make a separate addon for it. If you provide us with one or multiple animated octane scenes that use all possible material types of octane, (metals, diffuse, glass, volume, irredecent and so on), we could attempt to make separate octane version

That's not something that usually happens. Do you have fast camera movement? Could be caused if you are not using the overscan feature

The addon is compatible with apple pcs as well, there's no separate version required

Hi, what exactly do you mean?

If you are using regular SID, it's no problem. But if you use SID Temporal it gets a bit more complicated. The Render+ devs would need to implement a feature that triggers the render and denoising step, and then moves the files or something. As the buttons are in their addon, we cannot modify it from our side.

@@PidgeonTools Got it, thanks a lot for the quick reply :)

I am also wondering if the render crash, can I start over from the last frame converted to EXR in the processing folder ?

Hi, do you mean the motion blur in SID temporal?

Yes, disable the overwrite frame option. Make sure you do not delete the preview images, as they define at what frame you are rendering

Lens flares like glare, bloom, dirty lens, as well as streaks are available in the effects sections

There is a film grain effect! It's procedural, so you can adjust it to your own custom needs

@@PidgeonTools wow, nice, i need find it. Thx for your great work this tool is amazing!!

There are some examples on the blender market page! Just click the link in the description

@@PidgeonTools holy shit those are real examples? you gotta put high quality examples in a video...will def help you move the PTB!!

Thanks! We always appreciate feedback!

Thank you!

Would be awesome if you try it out. I don't have an amd card, can't test it myself.

We're always glad to hear suggestions! Let us know in the ideas channel!

Hi, it's not the file name, or it not recognising it. It's due to the special information that has to be included in the images. That's why they are multilayer exr images. They contain additional information like vector, Ted filter informations, the image itself as well as the depth of the image (not the z pass). The reason we have to use all the zeros is because python counts in an... Interesting way... 11 comes before 2 because 1 > 2. That's why the zeros. And so many because people might use frame ranges going into the thousands. Have you rendered the images regularly, or have you used the step 1? Because you really have to use step 1 for it to set up the settings and passes and denoising prerequisites and all that good stuff before step 2 can be applied

ya I figured that all out after. besides the python thing. I rendered in exr with the z and vector path but its not multi layer so i guess it doesn't matter. thanks for the reply another 4 day render here I come lol@@PidgeonTools

Hi, for SID to work, you need to have all passes enabled. Keep in mind, that currently, SID Temporal does not support temporally denoised passes. So instead you can use the regular SID and customize the passes there easily.

Hi, have you tried using Super Fast Render to optimize your scene? You could get a faster render time with it. It is part of the pidgeon tool bag, so if you bought it, you can already use it!

@@PidgeonTools Yes I was focused on trying out the SID, but I will try the other tools in the pidgeon tools too. It’s pretty impressive though that it already cut my render times to about 1/3 of the original.

Not compatible with octane. An older version of Super Image Denoiser used to have octane support. But we dropped it due to low demand and high maintenance costs

Hi, that's most likely due to some settings you have in your viewport render. Like "use scene lights" or "use scene World" as well as having viewport compositor disabled

Hi, thanks for letting me know. Something must have gone wrong when I updated it yesterday, I fixed it now

Hi, when you click on the add SID button it will add a node to each render layer node in the compositor

Make sure you only have the PTB active as an addon. If you installed the standalone SID addon, uninstall it as it is not compatible with blender 4.0. Having both addons enabled at once will cause issues. Be sure to restart blender after making sure only PTB is installed

Hi, what blender version are you on and what addon are you using?

Hi, luxcore does not support vector motion passes, so it is incompatible with luxcore

@@PidgeonTools thank you, i’ve read on gumroad that its comming to luxcore or something like that. That would be so nice. I’ve got idea maybe I can use vector pass from cycles since it doesn’t really matter the geometry and animation is the same in both engines…

Yeah, one would assume that, but you can't get cycles to only render vector motion

Hi, temporal denoising does not support frame steps.

Hi, due to the way light groups work, they dont offer the necessary data for SID to work with properly. You can use a regular denoise node for that

Due to the special passes and settings that SID temporal has to generate and set, you cannot use it on a render farm other than the pidgeon render farm

@@PidgeonToolsThanks for the quick response!

SID is cpu only, so you can use it with any GPU

@@PidgeonTools awesome, thank you! gonna give it a go then

Thank you for letting us know, I didn't think about that part. I'll consider your feedback for the next update

Only the render settings are camera bound. The lens, auto focus, and bokeh are camera individual. With the color grading and effects section being mostly compositor based, it is not possible to make them different for each camera.

@@PidgeonTools Perhaps you could save color grading values for each camera and reapply these values in the composer according to the selection of each camera.

I'm glad you appreciate our work! Auto exposure is in the making. The development of srs has been postponed, as I first want to polish up all the current addons and make a tutorial video for each one of them. Currently the video for the first part of three for SAC is in the making.

Hi, that's the old video for SFR, the new video can be found here czcams.com/video/WOnYrokXZg8/video.html Summarized what SFR does is, it optimizes the scene for you. There is a lot of stuff going on, too much to explain.