[Bf-funboard] Render Buttons proposal

[William Reynish]

Hi Luke. Yes that sounds like a reasonable idea. I was
actually going to suggest something similar (that the
presets only control the Format panel), although I'm
not sure I remembered to include it. You have some
good points, namely that with a system like that, alot
of the presets would have to be removed and new ones
(like for HD video) could appear.

As you say, you mostly use the preferences to quickly
match a certain size and format. You can always fiddle
with other rendering settings sepperately, and it's
often irritating that switching to PAL changes all
your render settings. 

How about adding a few more presets while we are at
it? Here is the full list I'd like(some of them are
inspired by presets in other software like After
Effects and Photoshop):

----------------
640x480
800x600
1024x768
----------------
2480x3508 A4
----------------
720x540 NTSC 601
720x534 NTSC DV/DVD
864x486 Wide NTSC 601
864x480 Wide NTSC DV/DVD
768x576 PAL
1024x576 Wide PAL
1280x720 HDTV 720P
1920x1080 HDTV 1080i
----------------


-William




 --- Luke Wenke <iljwamh1234567890@hotmail.com> skrev:
> Hi,
> I think the presets should only affect:
> 
> - width
> - height
> - scaling (100%, 75%, etc)
> - aspect ratio (aspX, aspY)
> - framerate
> - maybe field options (fields, odd [lower/upper], x)
> <- or maybe not,
> otherwise you might need to have PAL/NTSC both
> without and without fields.
> 
> The reason for this is that I think the presets
> should be an easy way to
> switch between PAL, NTSC, PAL widescreen, etc. I
> don't think they should
> affect OSA, frame range (start and end frame), etc,
> settings.
> 
> I don't think they should affect xparts, yparts or
> panorama (pano) either.
> The reason for this is that the current PANO preset
> sets the image size to
> an obscure setting. And if you click the "PANO"
> preset, then "PAL" (etc),
> then it undoes the panorama setting when you might
> have wanted it to have an
> interesting panorama view. (Like I've done in the
> past - it makes straight
> edges curved)
> 
> I think the presets should be:
> PAL
> PAL 16:9
> NTSC
> NTSC 16:9 (though I don't personally use NTSC)
> 640x480
> 
> If fields are part of the presets then there would
> be:
> PAL Progressive (or PAL No Fields)
> PAL Fields (or PAL Even Field First, PAL Even
> Fields, or PAL Lower Field
> First)... (also for NTSC and 16:9)
> 
> I don't think the existing "Full" preset (1280x1024)
> is a very accurate
> description since it seems you can render up to
> about 10,000x10,000. Also,
> the highest video resolution is in fact 1920x1080
> (HD video) - in fact,
> After Effects has an even higher preset for cinema
> work...
> 
> If people change one of the variables I listed
> earlier (width, height, etc)
> I think Blender should check to see if it matches an
> existing preset. If
> not, it could be called Preset.001 (or *Untitled
> Preset). Then when you
> click on it you could name it - e.g. "PAL 50%" or
> "800x600", etc.
> 
> I know there used to be a "Default" setting, but I
> think it is annoying that
> it turns off envmap, ray and radio like it does...
> and "Preview" isn't very
> useful - it basically changes the resolution to
> something obscure and
> changes the scaling to 50%.
> 
> So basically I'm trying to minimize the amount of
> fiddling people would need
> to do if they want to switch between different
> presets. (e.g. PAL, NTSC,
> 640x480...)
> 
> - Luke,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/renderbuttons.htm
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