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1 Choose the node in your node tree that you want to preview by doing one of the following:
— Hold down the Option key while dragging a node into the viewer.
— Right-click a node and choose an option from the Create/Play Preview submenu in the contextual menu.
2 When the Preview Render dialog opens, choose the quality, resolution, and motion blur settings you want to use for the Flipbook Preview.
The Flipbook Preview Render dialog
3 When you’ve chosen the settings you want to use, click Start Render.
The current frame range of the Time Ruler is rendered using the settings you’ve selected, and the result is viewable in the viewer you selected or dragged into.
TIP: If you want to create a Flipbook Preview and bypass the Render Settings dialog by just using either the default setting or the settings that were chosen last, hold down Shift- Option while you drag a node into the viewer. The Settings dialog will not appear, and rendering the preview will start right away.
TIP: If you want to create a Flipbook Preview and bypass the Render Settings dialog by just using either the default setting or the settings that were chosen last, hold down Shift- Option while you drag a node into the viewer. The Settings dialog will not appear, and rendering the preview will start right away.
TIP: If you want to create a Flipbook Preview and bypass the Render Settings dialog by just using either the default setting or the settings that were chosen last, hold down Shift- Option while you drag a node into the viewer. The Settings dialog will not appear, and rendering the preview will start right away.
Once you’ve created a Flipbook Preview within a particular viewer, right-clicking that viewer presents Flipbook-specific commands and options to Play, Loop, or Ping-Pong the Flipbook, to open it Full Screen, to Show Frame Numbers, and to eliminate it.
Playing Flipbook Previews
While the Flipbook Preview is loaded into a viewer, or open in full-screen mode, you can play or scrub through it using the mouse and the keyboard.
— Double-click in the viewer to start playback.