Applications preferences

Use this group of preferences to specify which application to use when opening specific image or movie file types from within Maya.

Enter the path to the desired program for each file type listed, or browse to point to the application executable file by clicking the folder icon.

In the Optional Flags fields, you can use the following syntax to configure the image or movie viewer:

Identifier Meaning
%f File name
%s Start frame
%e End frame
%b Jump by frames
%r Frame rate

(When the image or movie viewer is launched from Maya, these identifiers are replaced by proper values that you specify in context in Maya.)

Image Viewing Applications

All formats

Select your own image viewer to be launched from within Maya instead of using FCheck. This program is used when you select File > View Image.

Image Editing Applications

Enter the path to the application you want to use for each file type, or browse to point to the application’s executable.

Other Image Files

Specifies the application used for editing images from file texture nodes, using the the View or Edit buttons in the Attribute Editor.

For more information, see File textures.

Sequence Viewing Applications

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) files

Specify the player to use when you launch an .avi file in Maya, for example using the Window > Playblast options.

Quicktime (MOV) files

Specify the player to use when you launch an .mov file in Maya, for example using the Window > Playblast options.

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