- [Instructor] In the last exercise, we saved out
a sequence of images, 150 separate files,
each a still frame from this animation of a camera arc.
We want to view that image sequence as a motion picture,
as a movie.
We can do that using a tool called the RAM Player,
and it is found in the Rendering menu, Rendering.
The very bottom we see Compare Media in RAM Player.
Open that up and we get a window.
The menu item said, Compare Media in RAM Player
because the RAM Player has two channels,
Channel A and Channel B.
We could load in two different sequences and compare them.
Right now we only need to load in one sequence
in order to view it.
Click on the folder to open Channel A.
We should be taken to the render output folder
in the current project.
And indeed that is where we are exercise files
render output.
Here's the folder we created in the last movie,
camera_arc_sequence.
Double click to go inside there,
and just select the first frame of that sequence.
Check to make sure that the sequence check box is enabled
down here and then click the Open button.
We get a dialogue in which we can choose which frames
we wish to load.
Well, we want to load all the frames,
so we don't need to do anything here,
we'll just click OK.
Then we get another dialogue in which we have the option
to downgrade the resolution to limit the amount
of memory used.
We're not going to do that.
Again, just click OK.
And the frames start loading into system memory.
It'll take a few seconds to load all 150 frames from disc.
And once that's done, we can play the sequence back just
by pressing the play button,
and it'll play back at the default 30 frames per second.
We can change that frame rate.
We can set that to, let's say, 15 frames per second,
and rewind and play back, and play back at half speed.
We might be able to identify issues that we
couldn't see when we're playing back at full speed.
And we can even do things like play backwards if we want.
We can play our sequence in reverse.
All right, we can stop that.
So that looks okay.
When we close the RAM Player, we get a dialogue asking,
do you really want to do this, all files that are currently
in memory will be unloaded?
Are you sure?
Well, if we click OK here,
then if we wanted to watch this movie again,
we'd need to load it back into RAM, but that's fine,
this dialogue is another leftover
from when computers were a lot slower,
and it took a lot longer to load a sequence into RAM.
We're just going to exit out of here, click OK.
And that's how to view an image sequence
with the RAM Player.