Playblast a specified camera

[audun]

Hi Gurus
I just wanted to find how you would playblast a specified camera.

The playblast comand does'nt seem to have a camera flag. So I guess you would have to come up with some mel to select your camera and make it active. Now the only problem is Im not that fluent in mel (still learning..)

So if anyone would give me some hints on how this is done, I'd really appreciate it.

What Im doing is setting up scripts to playblast 12 different cameras at different timesteps in the same scene -and saving them out.

Thanks Audun

[gilbaron]

theres a script called cameramain in the mel/rendering section here on highend3d that lets you keyframe and constrain one master camera to multiple others and toggle between them. then you can just playblast that one master camera. this will only really work if you have one linear timeline worth of animation, otherwise youll have to write some code or duplicate some animation.

[audun]

Hi gilbaron
Thanks for getting back to me. I saw something like that some time ago. However for my anmation I want to be able to edit cuts, also some of them are actually fades. Anyway heres what worked for me:

lookThroughModelPanel camera1 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 1 -et 80 -v 0 -f cam1;

lookThroughModelPanel camera2 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 50 -et 105 -v 0 -f cam2;

lookThroughModelPanel camera3 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 75 -et 130 -v 0 -f cam3;

lookThroughModelPanel camera4 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 100 -et 175 -v 0 -f cam4;

lookThroughModelPanel camera5 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 135 -et 240 -v 0 -f cam5;

lookThroughModelPanel camera6 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 210 -et 275 -v 0 -f cam6;

lookThroughModelPanel camera7 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 240 -et 330 -v 0 -f cam7;

lookThroughModelPanel camera8 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 285 -et 600 -v 0 -f cam8;

lookThroughModelPanel camera10 modelPanel1;
playblast -fo -st 530 -et 630 -v 0 -f cam10;

This little script saves out my blasts to the current image folder - overwrinting any old files residing there...

The nice thing about this is I can go get a coffe and when Im back I can put all clips together in a comp or whatever

Audun