Camera motion does not match scrub view in render

[Anonymous]

Hello all

I have setup a scene to render out several products.

I have setup the camera to move left every 5 frames by a specific distance and if i scrub through the timeline everything looks great. However when I do a production render the camera does not change unless i scrub to the specific frame. So if I want to render frame 5-9, if the timeline dragger is on frame 0 the render will be of camera frame 0 and not frame 5-9. Please note that I am running the production with the frames option.

Hope that someone can help me?

[Francisco_Penaloza]

First, be sure that your camera animation is recorded (it has frames) and set up the interpolation between frames to linear. to avoid easing at start and end.

Then in the render windows, you have a few choices, by default will only render one frame, the frame that is selected.

The other choices are, render entire timeline length, so if your timeline is 50 frames, that's all that you get.

Render a range of frames, you can write down from 0 to 30 or anything you have chosen.

You can also choose specific frames, let's say, 0, 3, 24,57  separated by a comma, it will render only those frames if you place a dash between number then it will render all frames between those numbers.

Let's say 2,5,8-20 it will render only frames 2,5 and all frames including 8 till 20.

Hope this help.

[Anonymous]

Hello Francisco

Thanks for the response. I believe that the scene is already setup as your comments.

I have attached a test scene with 5 frame animation. If you render Frame 5 with the animation scrubber on frame 0, the result is different if you render Frame 5 with the animation scrubber manually moved to frame 5

[Francisco_Penaloza]

I am still using Max 2019 so I can't open that file, could you save it to 2019.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

2019 scene attached

[Francisco_Penaloza]

OK it was simple,

and I was thinking about it, but I need it to confirm.  Some way you 'lock' the view on the windows render,

as it is right now is locked on the perspective view, not the camera, view.

just click the lock icon right by the view to render drop-down menu and then choose your camera and it should render then.

The same way you can choose your camera and lock it to that view so then you won't be render anything but that camera.

Best luck.