Preview Animations

#1

I’m wondering how I can get some more robust control over the OGL previews I export out of LightWave. Specifically I’d like to know how to export at a specific size, rather than whatever the size happens to be on screen. I had my camera view maximized and created a preview of it. Much to my chagrin it created a video that was almost 1280x1024, minus the real-estate the LW UI takes up. Ack! I just want to type in 640x480 somewhere and know that my preview video is going to be exactly 640x480.

Also, is there a way to export an image sequence instead of a video? The compression quality on those preview animations is terrible, or the video size ends up being huge. If I had an image sequence to work with, I could bring it in to Premiere or QuickTime Pro and have much more control over the compression of the final video.

Thanks,
Dustin

#2

If you have multiple viewports in Layout, the preview will be made from the top-left viewport. It won’t enable you to specify an exact size but it will allow smaller previews simply by shrinking that viewport.

#3

Gotcha. Thanks.

#4

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