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Down below you can see the Timeline. Maybe you remember the clip about the camera. There
we already talked about the Timeline. Here your Snapshots are stored, so you can
continue working and render at a later point all pictures at once.
Already rendered images are also stored here so you get an excellent overview. If you render
all pictures at once, the previously rendered images won't get rendered again.
Basically the timeline is your camera in which all pictures are stored.
The Timeline can do much more than just store pictures. It allows you to try out various
sets with different settings. You can save the settings and work on them later. So every
step of your shooting is recorded.
We taking now a few different shots to illustrate that.
Maybe a picture with an additional light source, we snap a shot again.
And maybe a shot with two models.
Here in the Timeline you can see now three different Snapshots. Later, you will certainly
have a lot more pictures in the timeline. Your snapshots will have different backgrounds
and different props.
Back to the Timeline:
So you've already taken some shots, but you want to continue to try out some light settings
on your first shot. Therefore you don't have to remove model 2 and the second light source
from the studio. You just have to click on the corresponding snapshot in the Timeline.
Now you can see how the view on the left changes and displays a preview of the picture and
the studio from a bird's eye view. Below you have then the possibility to open the preview
and load the set.
If you use already existing settings and you just alert the setting, you save a lot of
time. Rather than starting the setting completely from skretch.
With many shots in your timeline where you used a lot of different equipment and settings
this will save you quiet some time.
To open the photo viewer you can simply double click on an image and you'll see a larger
view of the image. Don't worry, that the picture looks like this.
It is because we havn't rendered it yet. But we'll do this later on.
. The photo viewer shows you a large view of
your shots, but most important it helps you to prepare your Setplan.
In the photo preview you can edit all the essential informations which will be written
on the Setplan later.
You can customize your Setplan by editing the title, name of the photographer and of
the client. The fields title, photographer, client are
already filled in but of course you can change these settings to your own preferences.
In our example we inserted the name of the model Tina. Another advantage is that you
can write some important notes which you want to remember at a later point.
In the preview an overview of the Topview and your Setlist is shown. By the way, you
can edit several Setplans in a row. You can do this by simply clicking with the arrow
keys through your Timeline and fill in the appropriate fields.
You don't have to save the photo viewer, the changes are saved automatically in the Timeline.
At the end you have to save the entire project.
Before you export your Setplan you have to specify whether you want the whole room depicted
on your Setplan or just the needed area. If you only want the important area of your set,
click on Auto crop. The area will be automatically adjusted. Best is to set the zero point at
the top left of the area. The zero point is the starting point to orientate yourself in
the dimensioning grid. The dimensioning grid shows you how you should set up your light
settings later. Last but not least click on create PDF and you will get a file with all
the important information and data for your shooting.
But before you export your pictures you should render them. By doing this the depiction of
the pictures on the setplan will be much better. If you want to export only a picture at once
you can do it HERE.
Snapshots which you don't need you can easily delete by selecting them in the Timeline and
clicking the "Delete" key. This can be done very quickly with a multiple selection in
the Timeline.
So that's it: By clicking "Render all snapshots" everything
in the Timeline will get automatically rendered.