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[edit] Bake effect strip

"Bake" effect strip, to cache rendered results to file. Very usefull for complicated effect filter pipelines when the sequencer can't do in realtime anymore. Peter Schlaile

• I would think you can just render out the sequence to a file set as an intermediate tmp dir, and then read that back in as strip Roger
• May work sometimes, sometimes it is too clumsy. Basically same reason why people think of a baking node inside the compositor. Peter Schlaile