Watching and Exporting the Story Reel
As you’ve been working, no doubt you have been using Alt-A to watch the evolving story reel in the preview window of the Sequence Editor. As long as you are using fairly modern hardware, Blender will easily be able to show it in real time.
Before exporting the story reel as an animation, there is one more thing to do. The Scene Buttons contain a Stamp panel that begins its life docked behind the Format panel. By bringing that panel forward and clicking the Enable Stamp and Draw Stamp buttons, you can have Blender burn various informational notes into the animation for later reference. Set the panel up as in Figure 4.56 to include both the frame number and the time stamp in the animation. This will make it ...
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