Lets you preview the animation in your scene by outputting a movie or sequence of individual frames, depending on the Playblast Options you have set. (Select to open and set these options.)
The default output formats are the following: .avi (Windows), .image (Linux), and .qt (Mac OS X).
See also Playblast an animation.Lets you set the playback speed or frame rate of your current scene.
Play Every Frame, FreeSets the playback speed of your current scene to play every frame and not be clamped to a specific maximum frame rate.
Play Every Frame, Max Real-timeSets the playback speed of your current scene to play every frame and be clamped to a maximum frame rate of 24 frames per second.
Real-timeSets the playback speed of your current scene to 24 frames per second.
See also Optimize your scene for playbackTo select playback looping options, right-click the Time Slider and select Playback Looping > Once, Oscillate, or Continuous. These are the same options as those in the Preferences window.
Lets you toggle Stepped Preview mode on and off, easily switching curves from Spline to Stepped tangents and back. When on, keys temporarily display with Stepped tangents, so playing back your animation gives a quick view of object positions as they hit each keyframe. When off, the animation plays as usual with the original tangents. See also Stepped tangents.
Opens the Render View window and renders the current scene.