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Animation menu > Make Preview > Make Preview dialog
The Make Preview dialog enables you to create an avi–file preview of the animation in the current viewport.
Preview range group—Specifies the frames to be included in the preview, either the active time segment or a custom range of frames.
Frame Rate group—Specifies the playback frame rate in frames per second. Use Every Nth Frame to preview a regular sampling of the animation. For example, a value of 8 includes only every eighth frame in the preview.
Image Size group—Sets the resolution of your preview as a percentage of the current output resolution. The output resolution is set in the Render Scene dialog. For example, if the rendering output resolution is 640x480, and you set the Percent of Output spinner to 50, the preview resolution is 320x240.
Note: The size of the preview image is limited by the size of the viewpanel region (the region that contains the viewports). The spinner is clamped to the maximum value that allows the preview image to still fit in the viewpanel region.
Camera View group—Specifies whether the preview should include multi-pass rendering effects.
Display in Preview group—Specifies the types of objects to include in the preview. Frame numbers prints a frame number in the upper-left corner of each frame of the AVI file. Background includes the assigned viewport background in the preview.
Rendering Level drop-down list—Specifies the type of viewport rendering for the preview.
Specifies the preview output format.
AVI—When chosen, the preview is output as an AVI file. The button to the right displays the current AVI codec. Click it to adjust the assigned codec, or choose a different codec. The quality of your output AVI file depends on the type of codec you use and the codec settings, which vary. For the highest visual quality, choose the highest compression quality. The higher the compression quality, the lower the compression, and the larger the resultant file.
Custom File Type—Outputs the preview to the specified file format. When this option is chosen, and the Create button is clicked, a file selector appears, where you name the file and specify the output file type. For example, you can output the preview as a flic by specifying a file name with a .flc extension. If you specify a single-image format, such as .tga, the preview is output as a series of sequentially numbered files.
Use Device—Lets you output the preview to an external device, such as a digital recorder. The button at right displays the name of the currently assigned device. Click it to either change the settings of the device, or assign a different device.
Render Viewport list—Displays the names of the currently visible viewports, letting you choose which viewport to render from within the Render Scene dialog. Default=name of the active viewport.
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