You can create a movie of one shot you set up or of each shot. You can also create one movie containing all shots in the order they appear in the Shots interface.

Create a movie of one or all shots

1. Set up the shot (or sequence of shots) you want to save as a movie.

   Set up shots

2. Select File > Save Movie As.

   The Save As Movie window appears.

   

3. Specify the movie properties (width, height, frames per second), or leave them as they appear (the default).
4. From the Create Movie of pull-down menu, select which shot you want to include in the movie. You can select one of the shots in the scene to make its movie, or:
   • All shots together—creates one movie containing all shots in the order they appear in the Shots interface.
   • All shots separately—creates multiple movies, one for each shot shown in the Shots interface.
5. You can include anti-aliasing for a smoother look in Hardware rendering. Click the Anti-aliasing button, then move the slider towards Low or High depending on your needs.
   NoteThe Hardware anti-aliasing settings specified in Options > Performance and Quality are ignored when saving the movie.
   Choose a Preset size for playback at monitor or video resolutions. Set the Save as to be either a compressed video (AVI with Compression set below) or a series of images in either TIFF or JPEG format.
   NoteYour available video codecs for saving as a single AVI movie are determined by your global system settings.
6. Click Save movie.

   The Save Movie File window appears.

7. Browse to the folder where you want to save the movie.
8. Type the movie’s name into the File Name field.
9. Click Save.

Specify a Quality Range and Sampling for Ray Tracing output

For Ray Tracing image output, the Quality preset and Sampling quality can be set independent of the Interactive Ray Tracing settings used to display the image on screen. By default, the current Quality preset for the Interactive Ray Tracing will be used, but the Sampling quality will default to 1.

To save a movie using specific Ray Tracing settings:

1. Enable Ray Tracing using View > Ray Tracing, or by pressing R.
   NoteRay Tracing can be enabled or disabled for the current Save Movie by pressing the R key while the Save Movie As dialog box is open.
2. Choose a Quality preset (defines the overall quality and ray tracing effects used in the rendering) from the drop-down menu of presets if the current one is not desired.
3. Set the Sampling quality slider (controls the smoothness of the pixels in the final image) to the desired amount.
4. Press Save Movie... to initiate the offline rendering. A browser appears with the filename and location, then a progress bar indicates the rendering progress.
   NoteWhile an offline Ray Tracing rendering is progressing, the interactive Ray Tracing is disabled. Input for navigating the scene will be ignored until the rendering is complete.

5. The rendering can be cancelled at any time during its progress.