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by erikschoster 1775 days ago
That's an interesting approach. When I care to save every iteration of something I'm working on, I usually just put this functionality into the render script itself. For example something I was working on last year produced renders that were around 20 or 30 minutes long (I primarily work with audio) and I decided I wanted to save every permutation of the script as I worked on it, so I just added a few lines at the bottom to copy the script next to the render. A few hundred lines of python isn't a big deal to save when I'm already saving hours of audio renders.

I don't usually do this though... after 15+ years of doing generative audio work saving every iteration feels a little like hoarding.

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I agree, saving every iteration is overkill. I've done it on projects before too and it's too much. I just want an easy way to say, "I like this and I might want to go back to it later"