Subtitles of the Movie

Let's talk about how we can actually render and output an animation from Poser in a variety of ways. As you can see I have Andy here and he's going to do his Tai Bow and he's just getting his warm-ups ready and I'm simply hitting the Spacebar. Looks great, by the way. And if we go to Poser we see that I have 30 Frames of animation which is pretty much a second. So I can go to the Render Menu and hey, where is the animation stuff? Well, it's in the next door neighbor, the Animation Menu. We want to go to Make Movie. Now of all of our time so far we spent here, but this is the one exception. When you want to output a series of images, or a movie like I showed you we can go up to Make Movie and then we can go to the Settings here. You have the option to Output as a regular Movie file as I showed you with QuickTime. You can also choose Flash, and Image Files. Image Files is very helpful if you intend to do any compositing work so you will receive a series of images, in this case, 30 images that are all individual, then you could bring that into an Editing application like Final Cut Pro, or Premiere Pro for example. Then you can choose your Renderer. You could choose to render from the Preview, Sketch, or Firefly. You can also choose the Antialias and add a 2D motion blur, which is what I did when I rendered this. A motion blur is a really nice way to really sell the shot and make it look more realistic because things that are moving too quickly for our eyes to follow will blur a little bit. But, of course, I'm immortal and I can see those things very, very clearly. I can also choose my Blur amount and enter that value here. I can also choose my output Resolution. I can also change this to my own settings by just taking this Constrain aspect ratio off so I can make the height and width different. I can also go here and choose to render it Full, Half, Quarter, or Preview size. Notice what happens when I go to Quarter. We are given the actual size of our output instead of this and we can get Half and once again Half will be half of this. Or we can choose Full which will give us 490 by 500. I can also choose my Time Span. Very helpful if you have a very long animation and only want to show a client a certain amount of it, so you can say, well, here's the scene in between here and here where the character climbs the roof. And you can just render those out. You can also choose the Increments. You can render All frames and you can also choose the Frame rate, which is currently 30 frames per second; you can decrease or increase this as we want to and you can also choose Every Nth Frame, so you can just choose to render every third frame, every second frame, and so on. Once you're done you can choose Save Settings and if you want to you can go ahead and skip Save Settings and just click Make Movie and then in a little while you'll have your output. In my case I have a QuickTime Movie of Andy doing his exercise. And it's as simple as that.