Animating a long Scene/Spit project length?

Deke

I'm animating a longer scene and it seems to slow down the computer. How do other folks deal with this? Is there a way to copy a project and erase everything before...say...frame 500. So in the new project frame 500 would be frame 0? 

Richard Haseltine

Render to image sequence and you can do a batch of frames, thens restart the application, do another batch of frames, restart and so on.

Deke

Thanks. I'm trying to avoid the complexity of a given file. I've pretty much figured out a process where I copy the file (save as new name) and then just delete by hand a lot of the earlier stuff, starting more or less fresh.