Animation is rendered in Eevee instead of cycles

Question

I did an animation which i rendered to PNG using EEVEE for preview/testing purposes and after deciding i was happy with it, i tried rendering with cycles and it rendered in EEVEE.

I thought maybe i needed to close and restart Blender, and even deleting the original EEVEE renderings from the folder but i ended with the same result, I know it's probably only a schoolboy error but i'm lost. Thanks in advance

Just to be sure, you've selected Cycles as render engine, the output path is set to the directory you are checking and the overwrite option is enabled? — Robert Gützkow, Jan 17 '20 at 23:13
Restarting blender is not going to change the settings for render. You have to set the render to whatever engine you want. — , Jan 17 '20 at 23:21
Hi, yes I've made sure that the render engine is set to cycles and overwrite is checked. — LastOrders67, Jan 18 '20 at 00:54
Did you use the viewport render animation instead of the regular render animation ? View > Render Animation instead of the regular Render Animation (CTRL+F12) ? — Gorgious, Jan 18 '20 at 09:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '20 at 10:01

This happened to me, here is how I fixed it.

I rendered an animation in EEVEE to see what it was like and then created a video using the video sequencer.

Next day, I decided to do a Cycles render, but regardless of settings it always seemed to render an EEVEE render for both single image and animation.

Then I realised, I still had the EEVEE png files referenced in the Video Sequencer.

I deleted the strip, and then Hey Presto, I got Cycles rendering back!

Animation is rendered in Eevee instead of cycles

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