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to st art, choose File > Preferences > General and,
in the UI Display group, turn off
Autoplay Preview
File (page 3–859)
.)
Note: D o not open up any other program windows
that cover up the viewport while rendering a
preview. Any thing that covers up the viewport will
be rendered into the preview AVI file.
Procedure
To create a pr ev iew:
1.
Choose Animation menu > Make Preview.
The Make Preview dialog appears.
2. Change the preview p ar ameters or accept the
defaults, and then click OK.
IfAVIisselectedastheoutputtype,the
software renders the preview and saves it in
afilecalled
_scene.avi . Immediately after it
renders the preview, it star ts the Media Player
w ith this animation loaded.
3. View the preview by clicking Play in the Media
Player.
If you dismiss the Media Player but want to
view the preview again, choose Animation >
View Preview. This restarts the Media Player
with
_scene.avi .
You can save the preview under a different
name, so it won’t b e overwr itten the next time
you make a preview. To do so, use Animation >
Rename Preview (page 3–165) .
Mak e Pr ev iew Dialog
Animation menu > M ake Preview > Make Preview dialog
TheMakePreviewdialogenablesyoutocreatean
AVI file (page 3–658) preview of the animation in
the current viewport .
Interfa ce
Preview Range group
Specifies the frames to b e included in the preview,
either the
active time segment (page 3–998) or a
custom range of frames.
Frame Rate group
Specifies the playback
frame rate (page 3–1038)
in fr ames per second. Use Every Nth Frame to
preview a regular sampling of the animation. For
example, a value of 8 includes only ever y eighth
frame in the preview.
ImageSizegroup
Sets the resolution of your preview as a percentage
of the current output resolution. The output
resolution is set in the Render Scene dialog.
For example, if the rendering output resolution