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Animation playback using Playblast

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Animation playback using Playblast

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- When we create animation, there are many times when the animation will be too complex to play in real-time on Maya's timeline. And we may also want to save out movie files so that we can share with others. For both of these, we can use what's called Playblast. Now Playblast allows you to run animation in a view port and then save that out to a file. So let's go into Windows, Playblast. Now we have a number of options for this, so let's take a look at these before we generate a Playblast. And in this, we can select the time range, in this case we can use the time slider or we can specify a start and end frame I'm going to keep it on time slider. We can show ornaments, so I can show things such as safe frames and that sort of thing. I can render off-screen, typically it's best to render on screen, makes it easier. We can render to multiple different types of formats. I'm going to choose AVI. And then we can also choose the encoding that we want as well as quality. Now do we want the…

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