Fractal Architect 3 Help Index

Direct to Video Rendering Dialog


Applies to:FA 3DFA 3D-AV

This dialog allows you to create a video using the settings that you choose.

See also: Quick-Spin Animation Cross Breeder Animation

Direct Video Rendering panel
Direct Video Rendering panel

A. Standard Video Sizes
B. Motion Blur Settings
C. Quality
D. Render Action to Perform
E. Temporary Render Setting Overrides
F. Progress
G. Render Time
H. Frame Range to Render
I. Video Frame Rate & Codec Settings

How to Render a Video

  1. First choose the size of the video from the size lists for either 4X3 or 16X9 aspect ratio.
  2. Next choose the rendering quality, quality scaling adjustment, and other renderer settings.
  3. Next choose the size of the video frame rate and codec.
  4. Finally press the Render! button, choose a place to save the video file, and wait for your render to finish.
    When it is finished, a Video player will open with your new movie.

Standard Video Sizes

First choose the size of the video from the size lists for either 4X3 or 16X9 aspect ratio.

Video Sizes
Video Sizes

Standard video sizes - 4X3 aspect ratio

4x3 aspect ratio sizes
4x3 aspect ratio sizes

Standard video sizes - 16x9 aspect ratio

16x9 aspect ratio sizes
16x9 aspect ratio sizes

Motion Blur Settings

Fan Blades
Number of sub-frame interpolations to render. Adds motion blur.
Value = 1 has no motion blur. Small video frame sizes will have limited maximum fan blades

Quality Settings

Settings
Settings
Quality
Renderer Quality - better images with higher quality, but takes longer to render.
Small videos can use a quality of 50 or so.
Quality Scaling Adjustment
If you have used viewport scaling (zooming) to zoom into the image, this is an optional quality multiplier.

Render Action to Perform

Start
First frame to render
Count
Number of frames to render.
Render JPEG Image Files
Render JPEG image file sequence to a folder - one file per video frame

Temporary Render Setting Overrides

Super Sample Width
Controls anti-aliasing (jagged line edges).

Frame Range to Render

Start
First frame to render
Count
Number of frames to render.

Video Frame Rate and Codec Settings

VideoFrame rate & codec
VideoFrame rate & codec
Video Frame rates (frames per second)
Video frame rates
Video frame rates
Video Codecs
Video codecs
Video codecs
Render or Cancel buttons
Render or Cancel buttons
Hiqh Quality Video shown in QuickTime X Player
Output video
Output video