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Composing a shot with safe frames

Composing a shot with safe frames - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Composing a shot with safe frames

- [Instructor] Once you've established the aspect ratio using the Output Size parameters in the Render Setup dialog as we saw in the previous movie, then you're ready to make your final, informed decisions about your camera composition. In this case, I have a locked-down camera shot, and I don't really need the camera target, so I'm going to disable that. Select the camera, go to the Modify panel, and disable Targeted. That just simplifies my life a bit because now I only have one object in my scene to represent the camera instead of two. Now let's talk about composition. Going over to our Physical Camera viewport, we see that it's a certain shape, but that shape is fluid. The aspect ratio of the viewport can be adjusted simply by dragging on the edges of the viewport. And now we have a very wide aspect ratio. And the aspect ratio of the viewport has no relationship to that of the actual rendering, so if you want a…

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