Playblasting shots in the Camera Sequencer creates a movie clip of the shot’s camera over the entire shot range. By default, the movie is automatically posted to an image plane on the shot’s camera.
By default, playblasted movies are saved to your Movie project location. (The default location is: C:\Users\<currentuser\Documents\maya\projects\default\movies, but you can set a new location in the Project Window.) If there are multiple directories set in the Movie project location, Maya uses the first location listed. You can also change the Directory in the Playblast Shot Options or Playblast Sequence Options to change where movie files are saved.
To playblast a shot
- Select the shot you want to playblast.
- Do one of the following:
- Right-click the shot and select Playblast Shot from the menu that appears.
- From the Camera Sequencer menu bar, select .
- To set playblast options, then playblast the clip, select
Playblast > Playblast Selected Shots >
.
The shot is rendered out to a clip. A movie indicator appears at the bottom of the shot.
To playblast all shots in a track
- Select the track containing the clips you want to playblast.
- Select
.
The sequence is rendered out to a movie clip.
To playblast a sequence
- Do one of the following:
- Select to playblast without changing the Playblast Sequence Options.
- Select
Playblast > Playblast Sequence > to open the
Playblast Sequence Options, then click
Playblast Sequence.
All shots are rendered into a single movie. Whether an individual shot contributes to the movie depends on how the shots overlap each other.
The output movie is not associated with any particular shot and is not attached to the image plane for any camera.
To search for image planes, you must add the –shapes flag so that the imagePlaneShape node appears in the list.
string $fps[] = `listConnections -shapes 1 ($shot + ".clip")`;