• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Can you interrupt a Make Preview–Hardware Render?

  Posted by Shawn Marshall on August 9, 2010 at 10:25 pm

  Hi:

  I’ve looked through the documentation and I’m not seeing a way to interrupt or stop a Make Preview once you’ve launched it. Once you’ve started a preview render do you just have to sit there and let it churn for however long it takes to complete?

  I’ve posted elsewhere about preview renders taking 15 minutes for a 20 second animation. Today I was attempting to check a scene I’d tracked in Syntheyes consisting of just some nulls, a camera and a Background Object with a Quicktime of the footage I was tracking (ProRes codec). I set up a Make Preview Hardware render, 1280×720 and hit OK. After three or four minutes the progress bar got maybe a third of the way across and then locked up the program. I tried to Force Quit (Mac OS 10.5.8), but even Force Quit wouldn’t kill the program. I had to mash down the power button on my Mac Pro to turn off the system. That’s not acceptable to me.

  Thanks.

  Shawn Marshall
  Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

  Alan Lacey replied 16 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shawn Marshall

  August 10, 2010 at 12:21 am

  Apparently I can halt the calculation by hitting Option B to start another preview, which interrupts the current preview.

  Shawn
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  Alan Lacey

  August 12, 2010 at 8:08 am

  Yes that’s the only way I’ve discovered of interrupting it too!

  Alan

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