Rendered Still of a Frame of a Choreography

[LenseOnLife]

Hi,

 

I must be missing something VERY basic. How do I create a rendered version of a frame of scene/choreography?

 

I have a choreography, I don't want to render the entire choreography just a single rendered frame from within the choreography

 

Make sense?

 

Oliver

[LenseOnLife]

Having explored it a bit more I see that I need to render to an 'Image Sequence' - that is what I don't seem to be able to find.

 

I'm using A:M V18

When I 'Render to File' the format is 'avi' and I can't see how to change that to a sequence rather than an avi (see attached screen grab'. Have checked the Tools -> Options -> Rendering but that is set to AVI as well and I can't find any reference to 'Image Sequence'

 

 

Oliver

[robcat2075]

You're real close. There is also a drop down list on the "format" line.

 

[Rodney]

After setting the file format as Robert discribes then change the Frame Range to the desired Start and End frame that you wish to render. The Step setting allows us to skip frames (step 2 for instance will render every other frame). Or change the Frame Range setting to Custom Range and enter the frame or series of frames you want to render.

 

There are several options for selecting Custom Frame ranges. Some examples:

0 Will render only the first frame

1 Will render frame 1

3 Will render frame 3

1-5 (one dash five) will render frames 1 through 5

5-1 (will render frames 1 though 5 as if entered as 1-5)

1-3, 5-10, 4, 0 (will render frames 1 through 3 then frames 5 through 10, then frame 4 and finally frame zero. (could be especially handy if we need to borrow a rendered image - or part of an image- from another part of a sequence)

5,4,3,2,1 (we could use something like this to render a sequence in reverse order (however! the resulting images will be named in regular order).

 

For a still image just enter the number of the frame you desire to render.

 

For sequences, it's almost always a good idea to 'pad' filenames with zeroes which helps operating systems and most programs sort the files correctly.

Example: imageout000.png (three zero after the filename) will render out imageout000.png, imageout001.png, imageout002... imageout010.png, etc. whereas imageout.png will render imageout1.png... imageout10.png, etc. In this latter case most operating systems will sort the 1's first which will break the proper continuity of the filenames. I tend to use three zeros because it's very unlikely that any of my sequences will be longer than 999 frames.

[LenseOnLife]

Too embarrassed to admit how many days I've been searching for that wee dropdown

 

Thanks

 

Onwards and upwards

 

Thanks,

[robcat2075]

Too embarrassed to admit how many days I've been searching for that wee dropdown

 

Thanks

 

Onwards and upwards

 

Thanks,

 

I'm glad you dropped in to ask instead of going away mad.