Preview and rendering

Preview

While working in Natron you can preview your work in many ways:

  • connect the input of the viewer node to the node you want to look

    • pick the input arrow of the viewer node
    • select the node to view then use shortcuts 0 to 9

  • select the quality of the render (full/proxy)

  • start playing

  • the images are rendered in memory

  • when the preview render is finished all memories are storeed in the memory cache and the playback becomes realtime and plays in loop

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See The Viewer section for more information.

rendering

When you want to get the result of your nodetree as image file(s) on disk: - create a write node (shortcut w) - connect the write node to the last node of your NodeTree

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  • start the render with the render button in the Write node properties
../_images/node_image_write_render.gif

See The Write node section for more information.