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24. Picture Viewer
For quick animation previews, use the Render menu’s Make Preview command.
CINEMA 4D enables you to render either in the viewports or to the Picture Viewer using the commands
on the Render menu (see Chapter 13, ‘Rendering’). Although you can render in the viewports when
you want a quick test render of the current frame, you must render to the Picture Viewer when you
want to render an animation or save the picture or animation.
If you want to save the picture or animation when rendering to the Picture Viewer, rst set the save
path in the render settings. When you then render to the Picture Viewer, the picture or animation will
then be saved automatically using this path. Other render properties such as antialiasing and softness
must also be set in the render settings before you render to the Picture Viewer.
To render to the Picture Viewer:
 From the main menu, choose Render > Render To Picture Viewer.
The Picture Viewer will open if it isn’t already open and you’ll see the picture or animation appear as
it is being rendered by CINEMA 4D. To play an animation, use your preferred media player.
By clicking on the left-most icon at the top right of the Picture Viewer, , a window will open in
which you can set the exposure and gamma values for 32-Bit images. This only affects the preview
and does not affect saved bitmaps or bitmaps to be saved.