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Common Parameters Rollout (Render Scene Dialog) 29
Inter face
Time Output group
Select which frames you want to render.
Single—Current frame only.
Active T ime S egment—The Active Time Segment
(page 3–904) is the current range of frames as
showninthetimeslider.
Range—All the frames b etween and including the
two numbers you specify.
Fr ames—Nonsequential f r ames separated by
commas(forexample,2,5)orrangesofframes,
separated by hyphens (for example, 0-5).
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File Number Ba se—Specifies the base file
number,fromwhichthefilenamewill
increment. Range= -99,999 to 99,999. Available
onlyforActiveTimeSegmentandRange
output.
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Ever y N th f r ame—Regular sample of frames.
For example, type 8 to render every 8th f r ame.
Available only for Active Time Segment and
Range output.
For example, if the Range of frames is set to 0-3,
EveryNthFrameis1,andtheFileNumberBaseis
15, the output files are file0015, file0016, file0017,
file0018.
You c an specify a negative number base, as well.
For example, if you’re rendering frames 50-55,
and set the File Number Base to -50, the result
is file-050, file-051, file-052, file-053, file-054,
file-055.
Note: If you begin render a range of frames,
but h aven’t assig ned a file in which to save the
animation (using the Files button), an alert box
appears to warn you about this. Rendering
animations can take a long time, and usually it
doesn’t make sense to render a range without
saving all frames to a file.
Output S ize group
Select one of the predefined sizes or enter another
size in the Width and Height fields (in pixels).
These controls affect the image’s aspect ratio (page
3–911).