TM exporting duplicate files

Hi, i'm rendering videos in TM as PNG sequences for better control in post-production.

Recently i noticed that all videos rendered generate duplicate folders, like

[video 01]

[video01_part_1]

My question is, why TM do this? I reviewed every setting and none of them points to saving duplicates. Also i'm not sure if the duplicates are just saved, or rendered all over again, and that would explain a lot the huge render times for short videos (like 19 hrs for a 15 sec 1080x1920).

Any help?

Hello ,

It sounds like you have the video settings set to export each part of the video, as well as the entire video. If you go to the Export settings for your video, there is a setting for Part. This setting lets you select individual parts of your videos to export alongside the full video you are exporting.

In your example, the [video 01] folder contains the full video export and the [video01_part_1} folder contains only part 1 of that video.

If you deselect all in the Part options for the export settings, then only the full video should export.

Best,

​​​​​​​Raghib

Thank you Raghib, still getting used to the program ;)