Rendering Multiple cameras

[tonyrizo2003]

Hi All,

I saw Jose's post the other day about making specific icons for your LiveSet, so I was fishing around the net and found this ls script by Al Street. He wrote a script that will save out all the cameras in your layout scene file as seperate files but will also create a batch render file. Not sure how that works yet, pretty neat plug-in I asked if he wouldn't mind if I put it up here and he said yes. This works with 9x So here is the plug-in except that this one will render out 15 different cameras in your scene, which is great for making specific LiveSet Icons! Here's a link to the website, please donate something to his programing fund as he is helping to support the LW community as well as the Tricaster Community, IMHO :)

Oh I haven't had a chance to test out this version of the pug-n so if someone has time try it out and let us all know how well it works.

http://ats-3d.com/mcbr/index.htm

Thanks

More later

TOny :)

[joseburgos]

Nice idea but the plug-in is designed to render different frames of the same animation.
Example; Scene has 120 frames and three cameras. You can let it create three different scene files with camera one being frames 0-35, camera 2 being 36-90 and camera 3 being 91-120.
It uses the render range from the original scene file and the name you use in the render image save output.
So it needs to be written for LiveSet and by that I mean,
-Image name should match the camera name
-Frame numbers assigned in the plug-in are the start and end frame for the new scene files it generates
-More than 5 cameras and 12 would be a good number.

The only way to use the plug-in now would be to do the following;
Remove the LiveSet master plug-in
Change output image file name to camera angle (example left)
Change the render range in render globals to same start and end frame for the camera you want (example 0-0).
Then run the plug-in, Open render Q, load all new scene file segment the plug-in created and render from the render q window.
Now go back and load original scene and change the output file name and render range and repeat the steps.

Al is a great guy and although I have not spoke to him in a while, I wrote him an email asking if it can be written for our needs.

Until then, it is faster to use the F9 key on each camera you need an icon for and then after your done rendering all the shots you need, save them off one at a time from your image viewer.

Hope Al can make this happen or Newtek includes icon creation in the next version of the plug-in.

Take care,

[joseburgos]

So I wrote to Al and he re-wrote the plug-in to work as a LS icon maker :)
After some re-writes and lots of testing by me, it is ready.

New features in the LS version;
Uses camera name for the image file name
15 cameras now
Able to render just the shot you want based on frame number
http://ats-3d.com/mcbr/mcbr.zip

And as Tony suggested, please make a donation if you use it :)

I am writing a tutorial and will post when it is finished.

Take care,

[joseburgos]

Please goto this thread to continue this...
http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93036