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‌To scrub through a Flipbook using the mouse, do the following:‌‌

— Hold down the right mouse button down and drag left or right to scrub through frames.

To play back a Flipbook using the keyboard, do one of the following:

— Press the Spacebar to start or stop playback.

— Hold Shift and press the Spacebar to play in reverse.

To scrub through a Flipbook frame-by-frame using the keyboard, do one of the following:

— Press the Left or Right Arrow keys to move to the previous or next frame.

— Hold Shift and press the Left or Right Arrow keys to jump back or forward 10 frames.

— Press Command-Left Arrow to jump to the first frame.

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TIP: The mouse and keyboard shortcuts work in full-screen mode as well.


TIP: The mouse and keyboard shortcuts work in full-screen mode as well.


TIP: The mouse and keyboard shortcuts work in full-screen mode as well.

— Press Command-Right Arrow to jump to the last frame.


Removing Flipbook Previews

Once you create a Flipbook Preview, you need to know how to clear it from RAM.


To eliminate a Flipbook you’ve created:

— Right-click within a viewer containing a Flipbook Preview, and choose Remove Preview.


Flipbook Preview Render Settings

This section covers all the settings available for rendering Flipbook Previews to RAM.

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Settings

The Settings section of the Preview Render dialog includes three buttons that determine the overall quality and appearance of your Flipbook Preview. These buttons also have a significant impact on render times.

— HiQ: When enabled, this setting renders the preview in full image quality. If you need to see what the final output of a node would look like, then you would enable the HiQ setting. If you are

producing a rough preview to test animation, you can save yourself time by disabling this setting.

— MB: The MB in this setting stands for Motion Blur. When enabled, this setting renders with motion blur applied if any node is set to produce motion blur. If you are generating a rough preview and you aren’t concerned with the motion blur for animated elements, then you can save yourself time by disabling this setting.

— Some: When Some is enabled, only the nodes specifically needed to produce the image of the node you’re previewing are rendered.


Size

Since RAM Flipbook Previews use RAM, it’s helpful to know how many frames you can render into RAM before you run out of memory. The Flipbook Preview dialog calculates the currently available memory and displays how many frames will fit into RAM. If you have a small amount of RAM in your computer

  

 

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