Is there any correctable reason that, when I'm generating an animation, the Time Remaining keeps increasing and increasing? Last night I set up a render to run overnight. When it started, it projected ~7 hours; 4 hours later, it was projecting 13 hours to go, and this morning, after 13 total hours of rendering, it had rendered less than 1/3 of the animation, and said it had 22 hours to go.
I need to know whether these things will ever, in fact, finish. I've cut it down from about 1300 frames to 283, but I still see the Time Remaining creeping up with each additional rendered frame.
PS - I know this isn't a great rendering machine, but that doesn't explain never-ending renders.