How to set frame range independently for each camera

Question

blend file which contains multiple camera. Each of this camera will render its own specific frame range. How can i do this without each time have to edit the global frame range ?

Answer 1

Property getter and setter.

Quick test script. Wires up a property on the scene, that using uses a get and set method to retrieve data from scene camera if set. The frame start and end properties of the scene are set within the getter.

Ultimately would recommend a corresponding boolean property to turn behaviour off or on. Changing the output folder based on camera. This will avoid overwriting overlapping camera frames.

import bpy
from bpy.props import IntVectorProperty
context = bpy.context
scene = context.scene
'''
# set defaults test code
cam_objs = [c for c in scene.objects if c.type == 'CAMERA']
for c in cam_objs:
    c["cam_range"] = [1, 250]
'''
def get_res(self):
    if self.camera:
        fr = self.camera.get("cam_range", (1, 250))
        self.frame_start, self.frame_end = fr

        return fr
    return (0, 0) # no scene camera

def set_res(self, value):
    print("setting", value)
    self.camera['cam_range'] = value

bpy.types.Scene.cam_frame_range = IntVectorProperty(
        name="Camera Frame Range",
        size=2,
        get=get_res,
        set=set_res,
        )

def draw_cam_range(self, context):

    scene = context.scene
    if scene.camera:
        layout = self.layout
        '''
        if scene.get("cam_range"):
            row = layout.row()
            row.prop(scene.camera, '["cam_range"]')
        '''
        row = layout.row()
        row.prop(scene, "cam_frame_range")



bpy.types.SCENE_PT_scene.prepend(draw_cam_range)

Note using this method fires off a lot of depsgraph events while displaying the panel.

On the possible duplicate How can I make a camera the active one? the logic here is counter. Setting frame range from active camera as opposed to setting active camera from frame (marker).