Continue rendering with Windows screen locked


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By justaviking - 11 Years Ago
I am in the habit of pressing the "Windows-L" key combination to lock my screen when I walk away from my computer.

If you do this when iClone is rendering, it PAUSES the render.  So you come back an hour later, and find you you've only rendered the first 7 seconds of your video.

It should continue to render even with my screen (account) locked, like my NLE and most other sotware will.

By animagic - 11 Years Ago
Interesting. I never lock my screen at home where I do my animation work, but it sounds like a useful idea.
By justaviking - 11 Years Ago
As I said, "Habit."  It's gotten so ingrained from work, my fingers hit the keys as I get up from the chair.

Plus there were plenty of times at home I needed to keep kids of various ages off my computer, usually because they were to young to know what they were doing, but sometimes because they did know what they were doing.  (Don't you hate it when your preferences get changed?  Or your 14-year old goes to a virus and malware infected gaming site?  Yeah, sometimes it was just easier to lock my screen, even at home.  An ounce of prevention...)

On a related note, it might as well let your screen go into screensaver mode, when it's rendering.

Super-minor, I know.

Hey, if it's one of those "flip this bit" sort of things, why not ask?  You never know if it's a simple option or weeks of work to make the change.  I was very good at making insightful "order of magnitude" estimates with the enterprise-level software I used to work with, but in this case I really have no clue.

By Peter (RL) - 11 Years Ago
Thanks for the suggestion. As always this will be considered for future inclusion. :)