Render Animation dialog box

Review the Render Animation settings and their uses.

Specifies general settings for rendering animations.

Attention: When rendering, productions have precedence over animations. To render an animation, and not a production, deactivate any active production. Right-click the production and select Activate to deactivate it.

Access:

Ribbon: Render tab Render panel Render Animation

General tab

Width and Height	Specifies the width and height for output of rendered animations. To choose from most recently used values, click the arrow on the input box and select from the menu. You can adjust any value in the input box. Select Output Size Provides a list of values from which you can select for output size.
Lock aspect ratio	When selected, maintains the aspect ratio defined by the current animation width and height.
Camera	Specifies the camera for the active document.
Lighting Style	Provides a list of Lighting Styles from which to select. If no lighting styles are available, animations are rendered with the active lighting style.

Output tab

Output file	File browse window Specifies the required output file for animation rendering. Click the icon to the right of the file browse window to start the Open dialog box where you can browse to and select a file in AVI or WMV format. If you do not specify a file, and try to render, the file selection dialog box is displayed. Note: If you specify WMV as the output file type, use the Custom value for Network Bandwidth in the ASF Export Properties. Specify a minimum value of 700 for the output.
Time Range	Entire Animation Specifies the start and end times for the entire animation. To use the Measure command or choose from most recently used values, click the arrow on the input box and select from the menu. You can adjust any value in the input box. Specified Time Range Specifies the start and end times for a segment of the animation. Start time must be less than or equal to end time. To choose from most recently used values, click the arrow on the input box and select from the menu. You can adjust any value in the input box. The specified time range is expressed by seconds as a default. However, the time range can be expressed in terms of frames by specifying the number followed by the letter “f”. Reverse When selected, the animation records in reverse, from the end time to the start time. The time edit controls display the appropriate reversal.
Format	Video Format Specifies the video format. Image Sequence Format Specifies the image sequence format.
Preview: No Render	When selected, renders a preview animation using model scene elements such as lighting, shadows, and reflection.
Frame Rate	Specifies a value for frames per second. You select the value from the list.
Launch Player	When selected, starts the player for video format only.

Renderer tab

Render Duration	Render Time Sets the duration of the rendering. The number of iterations (and resulting quality) in a particular time interval depends on CPU speed. Render by iteration Sets the number of iterations to run. The time interval required to complete the number of iterations depends on CPU speed. Until Satisfactory Sets unlimited rendering. The rendering may be stopped manually.
Lighting and Material Accuracy	Mode Sets the duration of the rendering. The number of iterations (and resulting quality) in a particular time interval depends on CPU speed.
Image Filtering (Antialising)	Determines how multiple samples are combined into a single pixel value to soften or sharpen the final image. Box - shortest rendering time. Applies algorithm equally to all pixels. Default value: 1.0 Triangle - Use this option when you want to preserve sharpness. Default value: 2.0 Gaussian - use this filter to control the staircase artifact effect. Default value: 3.0 For final renders use: Lanczos - use this option for final render, but does increase rendering time. Default value: 4.0 Mitchell - use this option for final render, but does increase rendering time. Default value: 5.0

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