External Render Tool

While it's possible to render images directly in the Filmmaker, it is not recommended. You can use an external rendering tool instead, which has the following advantages:

• It's much faster than rendering directly in Pragma (since more GPU resources are available if Pragma is not running)
• You don't have to keep Pragma running in the background during the render process
• You can keep working on projects without affecting the rendering
• It's specialized for a single task and therefore less likely to crash than Pragma
• You can use both your CPU and GPU simultaneously when rendering animations
• You can cancel it any time, frames that have already been rendered will not be lost (except for the current one)

To use the external rendering tool, follow these instructions:

1. Launch PFM like usual and load your project
2. Switch to the "Cycles-renderer" tab
3. Instead of clicking "Render Image(s)" to render your images, click the "Create render job(s)" button
4. A ".prt"-file will be created in the output directory for every frame you wish to render, which contains a snapshot of all of the scene data required to render the frame
5. (Optional) At this point you may close Pragma
6. Drag and drop the ".prt"-files onto "Pragma/bin/render_raytracing.exe"

The images will be rendered one after the other and placed in the same directory as the ".prt"-files.