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Checkpointing can be found in the rendermanrendersettings node under Rendering → Render → Checkpoint Render
Checkpoint Exit at
You can use this parameter to set a time in hour / minutes / seconds for the renderer to exit. If a sequence of frames is being rendered, then the renderer will move onto the next frame in the sequence.
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- 60s - this is 60 seconds
- 60m - this is 60 minutes
- 60h - this is 60 hours
- 60d - this is 60 days
Therefore, to exit a render after 5 minutes, enter 5m. The image grid below demonstrates checkpointing at 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m
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