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4.
Click
Add Scene Event (page 3–325)
and
set the view to Perspective or a Camera you
have in the scene.
Click OK to close the Add Scene Event dialog.
5. Click
Add Image Output Event (page
3–334)
and then click Files.
6. Set the output file format to AVI File and enter
afilenamelikeMyScene.
ClickSavewhenyou’vesetthenameandformat
7. Select a
codec (page 3–1015)
from the Video
Compression dialog and click OK.
ThenclickOKtoclosetheAddImageOutput
Event dialog.
8. SelectthefirstImageInputEventandthenhold
downtheCTRLkeywhileselectingtheScene
Event.
Both events wi ll highlight in gold.
9. Click
Add Image Layer Event (page 3–331)
and choose
Pseudo Alpha (page 3–363)
from
the list of compositors and transitions.
ClickOKtoclosetheAddImageLayerEvent
dialog. Notice how the Image L ayer Event
becomestheparentofthetwoImageInput
Events.
10. Click the
Execute Sequence button (page
3–321)
.
11. Click Render on the Execute Video Post dialog.
Notice that the Image Input Event in this
example is only ten f rames long. Normally,
you’d choose a set of background i m ages that
equals the number of frames in your scene.
When this sequence is executed, as is, the
images in the IFL file will only appear for the
first ten frames and then disappear.
12. Select the Image Input Event just under the
Pseudo Alpha layer event.
13. AddaLoopEventandsetthenumberof
times to 4.
The Image Input Event becomes further nested
in the queue. If you want, you can use the
default Lo op setting or change it to Ping Pong
then click OK to close the Add Loop Event
dialog.
14. Click the Execute Sequence button again
and render the scene.
Join two anima tions – end to end:
If you’re working in a production environment,
you probably do not work on an entire animation
by yourself. Instead, you might work on one part
while other artists are working on other par ts. At
the end of the project, everyone’s animations need
to be joined together.
1. Choose Rendering > Video Post.
2. Click
Add Image Input Event (page 3–328)
and then click Files.
Choose your first animation file and click Op en
and then click OK to close the Add Image Input
Event dialog.