I am looking at getting a PC built for shooting stop motion.
Resolution - rendering to HD 1080p footage
Frame rate - rendering at 24fps
(so I am not rendering 4K at 60fps)
Note: looking at rendering 24fps with DAINapp, then probably mastering at 25fps from video editing software
I am looking at having the PC able to interpolate frame on my stop motion, experimenting with shooting “on 2s” (12fps) and upscaling to 24fps with DAINapp. Also trying out “on 3s” (8fps) and even “4s” (6fps) for some shots. This would be a significant economy of labour and with some experimentation I am hoping I could get a really nice look. (cf. Guldies DAINapp tests on youtube - looks great. Different frame rate but the underpinning idea I am hoping to leverage is the same. Stop motion inbetweening in a box.)
So with that in mind, will an
- RTX 2070 card do the job ok?
- Is an RTX 2070 Super, for a little more, going to bring a noticeable performance boost for DAINapp?
- Is it worth my while looking at a motherboard that can take up to 4 GPUs, and start with one with a view to getting more of the same GPU and ending up with x4?
I understand that this can be useful for rendering in Blender, wondering whether it would be of any real benefit to me in DAINapp? If so it’s something I’ll consider, as it lets me get an expandable setup at an affordable price. And I would imagine RTX cards may well drop in price in the coming months with the new range of Nvidia cards coming, so I might be able to take advantage of this and get more cards later in the year and next year. But if frame splitting across multiple GPUs is untested/unreliable/not really a time saver, I will focus more on the best card I can get. (Which might still be the RTX 2070 Super, as the nvidia rtx 2080 ti 11gb asus turbo is safely outside of my price range right now.
I’ll upload a render request to the #request-interpolation channel on Discord to see how it looks going 6/8/12 - to 24fps
Any thoughts, comments and advice welcome. With many thanks in advance.