I bit off more than I can chew.  I have 14 more hours to go in my rendering and I’m really going to need my computer before then, but I’d HATE to lose the day and a half of rendering I’ve already done. 

Lets say I’m on frame 200 (out of 300).  With scaline, I can “pause” but with mental ray, i can’t.  I’d love to just hit ‘stop’ and KEEP my 200 frames as it’s own animation that I could splice together later, but it looks like my only option is “cancel” which implies that I’ll lose a LOT of render work.  Is there a way to stop my rendering AND save what I’ve already done?

Thanks in advance.

(I’m using Max Design, FYI)

Chris

i think so, that is your only option hitting cancel and all rendered parts will show and the the rest stays black.

and what will happen to the 200 or so rendered frames in the .mov file I’m making?  Will it save them as a .mov file up to where I canceled it?  or will it just cancel the whole darn thing and I’ll have to start over?

Very unlikely - that is one of the main reasons for never rendering directly to an avi (or mov). If you render to individual image files, then you can stop, then restart at that frame - you can’t do that with an avi (mov). You will probably have to either let it run to completion, or stop it and re-render the whole thing another time. If you do stop it, and the resulting .mov is actually usable, then you would be very, very lucky.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.