Creating and Playing Animated Material Previews

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You can create a preview movie of an animated material. Use Make Preview in the Material Editor. Clicking this button displays the Create Material Preview dialog, which like the Renderer has controls for which frames to render, playback speed, and output size.

The preview movie is saved in the \previews subdirectory in a file called _medit.avi. Each time you create a new preview, the Material Editor overwrites this file. To keep a preview movie on hand, save it under a different name by using the Save Preview button on the same flyout as Make Preview.

Procedures

To create a preview of an animated material:

Choose Make Preview from the flyout.
In the Create Material Preview dialog, set the preview conditions you want, and then click OK.

The Material Editor creates the preview.

To play back a preview of an animated material:

Choose Play Preview from the flyout.

The Material Editor starts the Windows Media Player with the active preview movie loaded.
Click Play to view the preview movie.

To save a preview movie under a different name:

Choose Save Preview from the flyout.

The Material Editor displays a file save dialog.
Enter a new name for the preview, and then click OK.