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Welcome to the series of Blender tutorials.

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This tutorial is about the properties window in Blender 2.59.

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This script has been contributed by Sneha Deorukhkar and Bhanu Prakash and edited by Monisha Banerjee

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After watching this tutorial, we shall learn what is the Properties window;

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what is the Render panel in the Properties window;

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what are the various settings in the Render panel of the Properties window

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I assume that you know the basic elements of the Blender interface.

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If not then please refer to our earlier tutorial - Basic Description of the Blender Interface.

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The Properties window contains various panels. It is located on the right hand side of our screen.

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At the top of the Properties window, there is a row of  icons .

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These icons represent the different panels which come under the Properties section.

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Render, Scene, World, Object, etc.

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These panels contain various settings which are very useful while working in Blender.

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We must resize our Properties window for better viewing and understanding.

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Left click the  left edge of the Properties window, hold and drag to the left.

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We can see the options in the Properties window more clearly now.

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To learn how to resize the Blender windows see our tutorial - How to Change Window Types in Blender

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Render is the first panel in the Properties Window.

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By default, it gets displayed on the Blender Interface whenever we open Blender.

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The settings in this panel are used to create the final output of the animation.

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Image is used to render a single frame image of the active camera view.

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Left click  image . For keyboard shortcut, press F12.

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The active camera view is rendered as a single frame image.

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Press ESC on your keyboard to return to the 3D view.

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Animation is used to render an entire range of frames or an image sequence and create a movie file.

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By default, the frame range is 1 to 250 on the timeline.

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Left click Animation. The entire frame range from frame 1 to frame 250 is getting rendered.

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Press Esc to stop the render progress.

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Press Esc to return to the 3D view.

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Go to Display in the Render panel.

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Display helps us choose how to view the render progress on the Screen

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By Default, the display is in Image Editor mode. Let me demonstrate.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view.

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The Render Display appears as the UV/Image Editor.

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The 3D view changes to the UV/Image Editor everytime we render the active camera view.

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To learn about the UV/Image Editor, see the tutorial Types of windows - UV/Image Editor

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Press Esc to return to the 3D view.

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Go to Display in the Render panel. Left click image editor.

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This drop-down menu shows a list of render display options.

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Left click to select Full Screen.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view.

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Now, the entire Blender screen gets replaced by the UV/Image editor

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Press Esc to exit the full screen render mode and return to the Blender workspace.

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Go to Display in the Render panel. Left click Full screen. Select New window from the list.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view.

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Now, the Render Display appears as a new window over the Blender Workspace.

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You will find this very useful when rendering previews of your animation.

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We shall see how to do this in later tutorials.

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Close the Render Display window.

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Go to Display in the Render panel. Left click New Window.

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Left click to select Image editor mode. The display is in Image Editor mode.

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Next setting we shall see is Dimensions. Here we can customize the various render presets depending on our required output.

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Left Click Render Presets. A drop-down menu appears.

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Here is a list of all major render presets. DVCPRO, HDTV, NTSC, PAL etc.

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For now, we shall leave these aside and proceed to the Render Dimension settings

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Resolution is the width and height of the Render Display and the active Camera view

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By Default, in Blender 2.59, the resolution is 1920 by 1080 pixels.

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50%  is the percentage scale of the Render resolution.

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That means only 50% of the actual resolution will be rendered. Let me explain.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view. This is the default render resolution.

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It is only half or 50% of the actual resolution

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Close the render display window .

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Left click and hold 50% under Resolution in the Render Panel, and drag to the right.

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The percentage changes to 100%. Another way to change the percentage is -

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Left click 100%. Now type 100 on the keyboard and press enter.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view.

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Here is a full 100% resolution render of 1920 by 1080 pixels

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Close the render display windows. Now, I want to change the resolution to 720 by 576 pixels

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Left click 1920. Type 720 on your keyboard and press enter

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Again, Left click 1080. Type 576 on your keyboard and press enter.

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Press F12 to render the active camera view.

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Here is a full 100% resolution render of 720 by 576 pixels

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Close the render display window.

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Go to Frame range under Dimensions in the Render Panel.

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Frame Range  determines the renderable animation length for your movie.

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As I said before, by default, the frame range is 1 to 250.

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Left click Start 1. Type 0 on your keyboard and press enter.

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This is the starting frame or first frame of our animation length

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Left click End 250. Type 100 on your keyboard and press enter.

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This is the ending frame or last frame of our animation length.

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So now we have a new frame range for our animation.

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Go to Timeline  , below the 3D view.

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Notice how the timeline display has changed now because we changed the Frame range in the Render panel.

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To learn about the Timeline window, see the tutorial Types of Windows - Timeline.

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Go to Aspect Ratio under Dimensions in the Render Panel.

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Notice that when we changed the resolution, the aspect ratio changed as well.

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Frame rate determines the number of frames animating in one second in our movie.

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By default, it is 24 fps or frames per second.

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Left click 24 fps. A   drop-down menu appears.

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Here is a list of all major frame rates used while making an animation movie.

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You can choose any one depending on your requirement.

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Left click FPS 24. Type 15 on your keyboard and press enter.

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So now our frame rate has changed to 15 frames per second.

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Next is Output. Do you see this horizontal bar with tmp written on the left and a file browser icon on the right?

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Here we can specify the output folder for our Render files.

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Left click the file browser icon.

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To learn about File Browser, see the tutorial Types of Windows - File Browser and Info Panel.

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Select your output folder. I am selecting My Documents.

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Left click Create new directory. Type OUTPUT and press enter .

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Left click Output to open the folder.

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Left click Accept. Now all our Render files will be saved in the Output Folder in My Documents.

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Below the Output Folder bar is the Image format menu.

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Here we can choose our Output format for our Render images and movie files

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Left click PNG. Here is a list of all formats supported in Blender.

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We have image formats and movie formats.

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We can select any one depending on our requirements.

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Below PNG are the three color modes used in Blender. BW is the grayscale mode.

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RGB is selected by default. RGB is the colour mode that saves Render files with RGB data.

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RGBA saves render files with an additional data called Alpha channel.

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This works only with certain image formats that support Alpha channel rendering.

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So , that was about render panel.

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So, in this tutorial we have covered render panel under the Properties window.

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The rest of the panels shall be covered in the next tutorials.

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Now, go ahead and create a new Blend file. Change the Render Display to New window.

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Change resolution to 720 by 576 100%. Change frame range to 0 to 100.

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Change frame rate to 15 fps. Create an Output folder for the render files.

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This Tutorial is created by Project Oscar and supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT.

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More information on the same is available at the following links oscar.iitb.ac.in, and spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

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Thanks for joining us

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and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off.