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2 Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Preferences. Click the Timeline
category under Settings and make sure the Playback Speed is set to Play
every frame. Animation plays more accurately with this setting.
3 Locate the Live Lesson Data at http://www.autodesk.com/maya-training in
the Tutorials section.
Youll need about 300 Mb of disk space and a program (such as Winzip)
to extract the .zip file.
4 If Live doesnt appear in the menu set selection menu, select Window >
Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager. In the Plug-in Manager, locate
mayaLive.mll (Windows) and click the loaded checkbox. Wait about 20
seconds for the operation to finish, then close the Plug-in Manager.
5 Select the Live menu set. All instructions in this lesson assume you have
the Live menu set selected.
6 Choose Scene > New MatchMove.
When you create a new matchmove scene, Live places the Setup control
panel at the bottom of the standard Maya window. There are different
control panels for each of the main tasks: Setup, Track, Solve, and
Fine-Tune. The control panel is where you control most of the Live
operations.
Also notice Live creates a camera and an image plane in your scene. This is
the camera Live animates. The image plane serves as the background plate
when you look through the camera. It is where the images for the live shot
will appear once youve loaded them.
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