Render Dialog

Revision as of 18:11, 13 January 2010

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The Render dialog lets you render your animation. It can be reached through the caret menu>File>Render.
Let's have an in-depth look at it.

• Target
  • Filename - Here you can set desired output filename and also a custom path to the render.
  • Target - Set your output format. At auto the format is decided by the filename suffix. If none is present png-format is default.
• Settings
  • Quality - Set the quality of the render. 9 is highest quality but longest render time. 0 is lowest quality but renders faster. Default quality is 3.
  • Anti-Aliasing - Set the amount of anti-aliasing. Accepts values between 1 and 31. (Does not seem to work)
  • Use current frame - With this ticked only one frame is rendered; the current one.
    

Then there are three tabs, we're starting with;
Image tab

• Image Size
  • Width - set width of render in pixels.
  • Height - set height of render in pixels.
  • XRes - set horizontal resolution of render.
  • YRes - set vertical resolution of render.
  • Physical Width - set physical printing size of render. (Calculated from Width/XRes).
  • Physical Height - set physical printing size of render. (Calculated from Height/YRes).
  • Image Span - (?)
• Image Area - sets the portion of the workarea to be rendered.
  • Top Left X:/Y: - set where in the workarea top left of render starts.
  • Bottom Right X:/Y: - set where in the workarea bottom right of render starts.

Time tab

• Time Settings
  • Frames per second - set render framerate. Only applicable when rendering to movie-file, not image sequences.
  • Start Time - set where in your timeline rendered sequence will start.
  • End Time - set where in your timeline rendered sequence will end.
    

Other tab

• Locks and Links
  • Image Width
  • Image Height
  • Image Aspect
  • Image Span
  • Pixel Width
  • Pixel Height
  • Pixel Aspect
• Focus Point
  • Focus Point X:/Y:

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