Setting up a render

In this section, we will learn how to set a render to obtain the highest quality. This is going to be a very technical section in which we will explain some rendering concepts and define a balanced rendering setting.

We will not go through all the possible settings; we will learn only the most useful. This section is very important to understand how to valorize our shot with a high-quality render.

The first thing we need to do is to open the Render Settings window. To do that, click on the Unsaved Config* link under the Settings segment of the render job’s line you want to change:

Figure 13.11 – Opening the Render Settings window

The Render Settings window looks like this:

Figure 13.12 – Movie Render Queue render settings

Once we open the Render Settings window, it shows us the Output option (number 3 in Figure 13.12). We will come back to this later.

Let’s take a look...