Camera Animation question

[Bobo]

hey guys i need some help for an animation of a architectural presentation this week.

How to render more camera views in one animation rendering, like switching camera's in the same animation.


frame: 0 >>> viewing camera north
frame: 60 >>> viewing camera east
frame: 120 >>> viewing camera south
frame: 180 >>> viewing camera west

Thanks,...
While it is technically possible to render multiple cameras in a single run (for example using Video Post, MAXScript etc.), the way professionals do it (and I am not even speaking of Pixar here ;)) by rendering each camera sequence to single frames (like TGA) separately, then putting all images into an animation in either Video Post or in a 3rd party NLE package like Adobe Premiere etc.

This gives you much more flexibility plus the option to add advanced transitions between the sequences instead of hard cuts, and to generate different animation formats with different compressions until you like the result.

[Rigged]

Of course, but what I ment was when you accually click render in max it wil render over 4 different camera''s. And then the result will be 4 different jpeg or whatever.

Is it possible to render multiple views in one render 'action', accually?
So I don't have to wait 2 hours, when one render view is done, and have to selected another camera or view later to render again.

Tnx anyway.

[j_p]

yup no problem :thumbsup:

you can run the backburner network render trio that is delivered with max
run the manager
run the server, connect it to the manager
run the monitor, connect it too. you can run/pause/rerun and alter the jobs here etc

render your 4 cams one after the other via "network render" option an do it initially suspended (checkbox in the upcoming dialogue)
before you go, you kick your scenes to action

quite handy for working while rendering at low priority too!

just a one comp render farm....

[-Vormav-]

There are script out at scriptspot.com that will do this for you. I used the 'camera manager' script before, and it works perfectly for this.

[Conny]

You can use the "Scene Event" in Video Post to batch render alla cameras.
If you want separate sequences add an Image Output event for each camera.
Or if you want a countinous sequence add a single Image Output event at the end of the VP queue.

Conny

[Rigged]

These are all great tips, Tnx guys.


Greets, Rigged

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