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Enabling safe frames

Enabling safe frames - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Enabling safe frames

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- [Voiceover] When framing a shot for rendering, it's super-important to know where the borders of the frame are, what's going to be in the rendering and what's not. And when you render, by default, you don't necessarily see the same thing that you see in your viewport. I'll select that physical camera viewport, and we'll do a test rendering. Up here on the main toolbar, we're looking for these little teapot icons. And we're just going to do a standard test render, using the so-called scan line renderer. And that's the teapot with the little lightning bolt on it, render production. Click on that, and we get a window popping up that's just going to render the current view. And it may take a moment, because I've got a pretty heavy scene here, but there we go, we've got our rendering. Now, notice that we don't see the exact same thing in this view, especially if you look at the bottom here. We're getting more cropping on that sofa down here. We're seeing less of the sofa than we do in…

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