render from command line (Blender addon)

This blender addon adds a panel into the rendering property that allows you to:

• render via command line a frame range in a different instance of blender
• adds a timestamp of the start of the render job to each files (to avoid overwriting older renders)
• quickly add a base name for the render (e.g. "Scene1")
• adds the frame range to the title of the files (as blender does by default with video output)
• save a list of frame ranges for quickly reloading them (the corresponding base name will be updated as well)

I also added a few options for sync the frame range to the frame range of the scene, or set the start/end frame to be the same as the play head. The destination folder can be set as well. This will override the regular destination directory of the render properties. All the files output set in the compositor will be exported as expected, without any renaming.

This addons works with images (especially sequence images for animations!), and also video, but you may want to uncheck "add frame range" for video because blender adds it anyway.

before rendering with the addon, the blender file needs to be saved.

You can render several frame range simultaneously (as long as your video memory allows it!).

Should work on every OS (only tested on windows 10). If there is any bug, please contact me.