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Swap Events 325
Procedure
To delete any event in the queue:
• Select the event and press the Delete key.
You can delete both enabled and disabled
events, w hich are unavailable.
Swap Events
Rendering menu > Video Post > Video Post window >
Select two events. > Video Post toolbar > Swap Events
The Swap Events button switches the position of
two selected e vents in the queue.
This is useful if you have images in the wrong
order for compositing. The background image has
to be first and the foreground image with the alpha
channel (page 3–907) has to be second.
Procedure
To switch the positions of two events in the queue:
1.
Highlight both events.
2. Click Swap.
Swap Events might not be allowed if the result
wouldbeimpossibletoexecute.
In this sample queue, the two top level events,
Front and Fade, could be swapped. You can almost
always swap events at the top level.
However, at lower levels, where events start getting
nested, the output of a lower level event must
be valid input to its parent e vent. In the sample
queue, the output of the Lo op Once event would
not be recognized by t he Fade event, so the Swap
Events button remains inactive and you c annot
swap them.
Execute S equence
Rendering menu > Vi deo Post > Video Post toolbar >
Execute Sequence
YouexecutetheVideoPostqueueasthefinalstep
in creating a p ost-produced video. Execution is
different from rendering because renderi ng is
done for scenes only and you can use Video Post
to composite images and animations without
including the current 3ds Max scene.
Although the Execute Video Post controls are
similar to those in the Render Scene dialog, the
setting are independent, and do not affect each
other.
During execution, you can move or close the
renderedframewindow,butyoucan’tusetherest
of 3ds Max until the execution is completed or
cancelled.
The rendering time for the last rendered frame in
the Video Post sequence is displayed in the prompt
line of the main 3ds Max window.
Procedure
To execute t he queue:
1. Click Execute Sequence.
An Execute Video Post dialog appears.