Retime-Freeze animation using the same cache frame?

[AdZanetti]

let's say i retime a cached animation, i slow it down and freeze on one specific cached frame for a duration of 50-100 frames... Can FumeFx reuse that same frame 50-100 times instead of filling my cache with 50-100 identical frames, and consequently reusing the 3gb of disk space that cached frame uses... 50-100 times? So instead of 300 Gb for that frozen bullet time sequence... i'd use only 3GB.

[AdZanetti]

Dunno how you guys get nice result with retiming FX cache, i'm getting such messed up interpolation and not even smooth when easing out a cached animation before freezing it for a bullet time effect. What am i missing here?

[sitnisati]

Hello,

You can always stretch one frame in comp for as long as you want and you even do not need to wait FumeFX to retime still frame.
Fire with high expansion and moving sources can be problematic. other than that, it looks okay here.

Kresimir

[AdZanetti]

Ok, i do have high expansion on fire as i'm going for some kind of dire trail effect. But eventually i dropped it, the whole bullet time effect was rather complicated and not so "original" for that, not worth it. But good to know. Thanks for the feedback!

[sitnisati]

You're welcome !