Blender Temporal Denoising Panel
Adds a panel under the Render Properties > Sampling to enable Blender's Temporal Denoising functionality outside of manually running the denoising script manually.
Temporal Denoising requires the following:
- OpenEXR Multilayer image format
- Denoise Data Pass enabled
- Vector Data Pass enabled
- Denoising disabled on the original render, but enabled when running the temporal denoising operator.
How to use:
Either enable the "Automatic" toggle then render your animations normally, or render with the proper settings above then press the manual button. The addon will turn on all settings/change file type to OpenEXR as needed for temporal denoising to work, then will revert the settings back to what they were before rendering. (Keep Settings will prevent the settings from changing back)
I HIGHLY recommend using the automatic toggle as it does all the settings and verifies them for you before starting the render then reverts to whatever you had when its over/canceled.
Questions:
I can't see this panel? Where is it?
This is ONLY available in cycles rendering mode, so make sure you are in cycles. If it still isn't showing up, please make sure that you installed the addon, saved your preferences, then reloaded blender.
What is temporal denoising?
tldr its a better denoising technique for animations that prevents flickering in the denoising.
How does this addon work?
Its actually a pretty basic addon. All it does it change the settings in blender required for temporal denoising to work, then allows the render to complete, then when its complete it will enable the denosing settings then run the bpy.ops.cycles.denoise_animation() operator, then reverts the changed settings. I did not code the temporal denoising, it already exists in blender, this addon just makes it significantly easier to use.
I don't know how to use EXR?
Davinci Resolve is a very good video editor that supports it, but I'm pretty sure every video editor worth using supports it. You should look up how to handle EXR for your editor of choice.
A cool addon!