Cached playback from the viewer, Launching the flipbook, Chapter – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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The Flipbook, Monitor Previews,
and Color Calibration

As you work with Shake, the Flipbook lets you preview
your scripts in motion before actually rendering them to
disk. The Monitor Preview control lets you send the
Viewer output to an external monitor, allowing you to
examine your image output on a different screen.

Cached Playback From the Viewer

You can cache frames using the Time Bar playback controls, to preview your work right
in the Viewer.

To begin cached Viewer playback:

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Shift-click either the forward or back playback button in the Time Bar area.

The pointer changes into the cached-playback cursor, and Shake begins to render and
cache all frames within the current frame range.

Once the frames have been cached, cached playback continues in a loop.

Launching the Flipbook

You can also render a temporary Flipbook to preview your work. Once the Flipbook has
rendered into RAM, use the playback buttons (described below) to play back the
sequence. The Flipbook is available on Mac OS X and Linux systems.

Note: On a Mac OS X system, you can create a disk-based QuickTime Flipbook. For
more information, see “

Creating a Disk-Based Flipbook

” on page 326.

To launch the Flipbook from the Shake interface:

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In the Globals tab, set the timeRange for the duration you want to preview.
For example: 1-50, 1-50x2.

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