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ThenclickOKtoclosetheAddImageOutput
Event dialog.
8. Right-click the Sphere to bring up the Quad
Menus and select Properties.
9. Set the Object Channel in the G-Buffer group
to 1 and click OK.
10. Click the Execute Sequence button (page
3–325).
11. Click Render on the Execute Video Post dialog.
You’ll see the a glowing sphere in the render
window.
Example: Create an animation f rom a series of still
images:
Another common process you’ll use Video Post
toachieveistakingaseriesofstillimagesyou’ve
rendered and conver t them to an animation. To
accomplish this task, you need an IFL file (page
3–616).
1. Use the IFL Manager Utility (page 3–619) to
create an IFL file containing the sequentially
number image files you want to process.
2. Choose Rendering > Video Post.
3. Click Add Image Input Eve nt (page 3–332)
and then click Files.
Choose the IFL file you created at step 1 and
then click Open to close t he selection dialog.
4. Click OK to close the Add Input Image Event
dialog.
5. Click Add Image Output Event (page
3–339) and then click Files.
6. Set the output file format to AV I F i l e ( p a g e
3–609) and enter a filename like MyAnimation.
ClickSavewhenyou’vesetthenameandformat
7. Select a codec (page 3–921) from the Video
Compression dialog and click OK.
ThenclickOKtoclosetheAddImageOutput
Event dialog.
8. Click t he Execute Sequence button (page
3–325).
9. Click Render on the Execute Video Post dialog.
The final produc t is an animation.
Ex ample: R ender a scene wi th a st arf ield:
At some t ime, you’ll want to create a night scene
thatrequiresastarrysky. Thekeythingto
remember when creating a star field is adding a
camera to the scene. The Starfield filter only works
w ith a camera. Here are the steps to set that up.
1. IntheTopviewport,createaSpherewitha
radius of about 30 and a Target Camera.
Placethecameratoonesideandhaveit
pointing at the center of the sphere.
2. Right-click in the Perspective viewport and
type C to change the viewport display to
Camera01.
3. Choose Rendering > Video Post.