Natron render stalls / viewer frozen: use DiskCache!

[devernay (Frédéric Devernay)]

Those are simply bugs, and I very probably won’t fix these. Use the DiskCache node, as mentioned in these subjects:
https://natron.readthedocs.io/en/rb-2.3/guide/getstarted-troubleshooting.html

Natron Troubleshooting

There is a new section in the documentation: Troubleshooting — Natron 2.4.1 documentation Troubleshooting Natron has bugs, as any software does. Natron is also a free and open-source software, and bugs are fixed by volunteers when they have some spare time, so please be tolerant and do not expect your bug to be fixed within the hour. It may take days, weeks, or it may even never be fixed. Properly reporting a bug takes time, but the time spent reporting a bug will certainly help you and the …

Natron Render Failing... Where to find error long/diagnostic info?

Hey there, Long time After Effects user here. Trying out Natron for the first time this week and having a blast learning nodes. I designed an animated lower third and tried to render out a PNG sequence, but for some reason the render would get hung on frame 12 (the first keyframe in my timeline). After saving my project, and restarting Natron, the render came out fine. Just for future reference, if I’m experiencing any similar weirdness like this down the road, is there a way I can view logged …

Natron cache not clear while rendering, viewport issue?

What OS are you using? Natron on Linux has the reputation to be more stable. Hint: if you rotopaint over the result of a compositing graph, then use the disk cache node to cache to disk everything above rotopaint. This make things a lot easier (just think about all the operations required to render just one pixel of your rotopaint output - every rotopaint stroke is actually one or two more nodes in the internal graph): http://natron.readthedocs.io/en/rb-2.3/plugins/fr.inria.built-in.DiskCache.…