Render Dialog

Revision as of 17:33, 21 August 2013

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The "Render Dialog" lets you render your animation. It can be reached through the Canvas Menu Caret "<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. Quality changes behavior of some layers, not all of them. For example Motion Blur layer renders more subsamples based on quality values in intervals.
    • Default quality is 3.
    • 1 is highest quality but with longest render time.
    • 9 is lowest quality but renders faster.
    • 0 is even lower than 9 and seems to disable apha channels as well.
  • Anti-Aliasing - Set the amount of anti-aliasing. Accepts values between 1 and 31, although values above 3 is very subtle improvements and hard to notice. higher values also adds considerable to render times.
  • Render current frame only - 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.
    
  • Duration - set the duration of the animation.
    

Other tab

 TODO writeme (explain how to use "other tab" parameters

• 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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