My render crashed 9 hours into a 12 hour batch last night

I was working on this 4K animation loop for a client in Chicago. Saved over my last good version by accident around hour 8. When the software crashed at hour 9, I lost everything past that save point. Had to restart from scratch and work through the night to hit the morning deadline. The timeline was so tight I skipped sleep entirely. Has anyone else had a late stage render fail like that and had to recover fast?

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3 Comments

the_elliot6d ago

Honestly feels like you're overreacting a bit.

rose_reed6d ago

Set up auto-saves every 15 minutes on big projects like that. Also get into the habit of saving a new version with a number every hour so you can roll back if something goes wrong.

paige3316d ago

@the_elliot you definitely haven't lost 6 hours of work before lol, 15 min saves saved my butt plenty of times