Morevna team released a new version of their in-house tool called Remake which automates rerendering of animation footage.

Remake is based on standard GNU Make tool, it looks for changed footage data and automatically renders everything sparing your time.

The newly released version feature support for files from Pencil animation app. Unfortunately proposed patches haven't been merged upstream by pencil team, so for now you will need a patched build of Pencil. Support for MP3 files (outputs to WAV) and compressed Synfig project files (.sifz) was also added.

Additionally two new rendering mode was introduced. The first one is called "deps", it renders only dependant files, not the whole footage. This can be useful in cases you want to check how much has changed without rebuilding the whole thing. The second one, "stereo", allows rendering stereo version of footage created in Blender.

Finally, a new -c option allows choosing a camera to render with for Blender files (.blend).

The new version is available for downloading here.

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