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moving object, instead of the default single
image.
Inter face
View group
Label—Lets you edit the event name.
Viewport—Select the viewport you want to render.
Scene Options group
Enables various rendering effects.
Render Options—Displays a subset of the
parameters in the Render Scene dialog. For
informationonthesecontrols,seethe
Common
Parameters (page 3–27)
and MAX Default Scanline
A-Buffer (page 3–37)
help topics. Changes you
make to the Scene Event Render Options affect th e
Render Scene d ialog, as well.
Scene Motion Blur —Turns on the scene
motion-blur (page 3–1101)
effect for the whole
scene. This is different from
object motion blur
(page 3–1075)
, which creates motion blur for
individual objects in the scene.
Duration—Sets the virtu al shutter speed for mot ion
blur. When it’s set to 1.0, the virtual shutter is
open for the entire duration between one frame
and the next. When it’s set to a smaller number
(for example, 0.25), the number of subdivisions
specified in the Duration Subdivision field will be
rendered within the specified portion of the frame
(inthisexample,inthefirst.25oftheduration
between one f r ame and the next).
Duration Subdivision—Determines how many
sub-frame slices are rendered within the Duration.
Thedefaultis2slices,butyou’llwantatleast5or
6 to get a decent effect.
Dither % —Sets the amount of dithering (page
3–1023)
between blurred pixels of overlapping
frame slices. If Dither % is set to 0, no dithering
occurs.
Scene Range group
Scene Start/End—Sets the range of scene frames
to be rendered.
Lock R a n ge B a r to S cene Ra n ge—Becomes available
when you deselect Lock to Video Post Range.
When it’s available, the End spinner is disabled
andlockedtotheVideoPostrange.Whenyou
change the Start spinner it automa tically updates
the End spinner based on the Video Post range set
for this event.
Ifyouclearthebox,youcanchangeeitherStartor
End spinners to w hatever you want. This allows
youtokeepyourscenerangelockedtoitsnative
length, and still provides flexibility for mapping an
arbitrary scene range to an arbitrary Video Post
range.