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Make Preview
Using Make Preview, you can quickly generate a preview movie of your animation. This is especially
useful when the scene is too complicated for smooth realtime playback in the viewport.
After choosing this command, a dialog opens. Dene the quality settings for the preview movie and
click the OK button. As soon as the movie has been created, the movie player installed on your system
will open and play back the preview automatically.
The movie is saved in your CINEMA 4D folder under the name ‘preview.mov’ or ‘preview.avi.’. The
movie will be overwritten automatically the next time you generate a preview, so if you want to keep
a permanent copy of the preview, use the movie player to save it under a different name.
Preview Mode
Choose whether the preview movie should use the same shading as the viewport (As Editor) or render-
quality shading as dened in the render settings (Full Render).
Preview Range
Denes which frames are included in the preview. All Frames means the entire animation will be
shown. Preview Range means the preview range dened in the Timeline is used (the area between the
green markers in the Timeline). Alternatively, enter the start frame and end frame for the animation
into the From and To boxes.