No

You have to render the image while you do the animation.

When you start creating the AVI file select how you want it to render in the dialog.

Note that anything other then preview will take a long time if you have more then a short clip. It has to render every frame one at a time endlessly.

I do a lot of video (sometimes clips of over 4,000 frames at 900 by 1200 or larger) and I do it all rendered in preview.  These I output in sections, you can set it to output the frames you want.

I'd love to be able to output a rendered video but I'm too impatient to wait 12 hours for it to get done.  

I strongly doubt that it would ever get done anyway, it's a lot more likely that it would crash a quarter to the way through after sitting there for hours.

Mike

If you shoot a mime, do you need a silencer?