Render Setup Improvements

[Anonymous]

Here are a few suggestions:

Render Setup -> Output Size:  Add 4k resolution to the drop down

Render Setup -> Files -> Render Output File:  As Apple is no long supporting QuickTime for Windows, and Adobe has removed support from CC 2018 and up for QuickTime 7 era formats and codecs; it would be a great time to offer rendering a high resolution video as an mp4.

Thank you for your consideration of these feature requests!

[RGhost77]

Rendering in video format totally bad idea. Much better render to image sequence and then compose it to video file.

[Anonymous]

Hi RGhost77, I teach 3d graphics and animation to beginning and advanced high school students.  For the advanced students, rendering as an image sequence, then using another program like Premiere or After Effects to composite, then doing a final render from one of these programs is fine.  But for the beginners, it adds a lot of extra steps to see results while they are still just trying to master the basics of modeling and animation, creating short sequences.  The simpler I can make it, the easier it is for them to learn; taking it step by step until they get good enough to start to introduce multiple programs into their workflow.

[RGhost77]

Oh, I think better show how "do it right" not how do it "wrong but fast". For animation we have Make Preview as option.

Why I argue with you because a we have lot of threads when users ask "Why render to video format goes wrong?!", and answer to that "Never render to video file!!".

Maybe will be good totally remove possibility render to video file and make some tools/workflow in Max to proper way of making video files from rendered images sequences.

Btw, modern video compression and containers like work very differently that old compressors in .avi format.

[dgorsman]

For quick previews, get something script-able like ffmpeg.  Then all it takes is having the images files in a specific folder and running a link to the script (e.g. BAT file).  With a bit of work you could likely have the script auto-run after rendering.  

There doesn't have to be any in-depth knowledge about what is being done i.e. "Do ____, then _____.  Don't worry about the 'why' just yet."  Pretty sure it won't be the only parts being taught like that.  And it's not that different from an industry pipeline situation, where the artists won't be intimately familiar with every step of the process.