Running Multiple ViewShifts at Once

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‌Running Multiple ViewShifts at Once

With multiple ViewShifts, you normally run each one individually (via the Run Now! button on the ViewShift panel) when you want to generate a new output sequence/movie. To produce multiple outputs with one command, first daisy-chain the ViewShifts together in the Phase View.

Warning : If any of the daisy-chained ViewShifts use Over background, the background will be taken from the input if one is present. This is fine for the common cases: a string of independent ViewShift phases producing "with alpha" images, or a string of ViewShifts compositing onto a single preview result. Independent chains can't be run automatically all together.

Important: ViewShifts always take their input from the real scene. Don't connect solving phases to any ViewShift's input: the results of solving phases are ignored!

To run a chain of ViewShift phases:

 right-click anywhere in the phase view,

 select Unsolve from the menu,

 right-click the last phase in the chain (with no output),

 select Set as root from the menu,

 right-click anywhere in the phase view, and

 select Run all from the menu.

 The normal Solving dialog will appear and show informational messages as it works its way through the ViewShift phases.

 When the sequence finishes, be sure to select OK on the solver panel. If you click cancel, you will lose the Frame control information written by the phases.

This sequence ensures that they all run. (When a ViewShift is run from the phase view, it is marked as "solved" and won't run again until it is "unsolved".)

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