Hi.  I'm working on a small video project that needs to be finished by monday and had a few questions.

 

1.  Some of my scenes only have subtle animated effects.  If I want to render the static parts   (Daz's giant forest scene) as a background plate, how do I tell it to render out the masks so I can composite it back in after effects?

 

2.  How do I access the key frame function?  (It's been a long while since version 2)  I know there is animate, but I'm on no budget and have keyframed animations before.

 

3. Is there a way to find out how long the image took to render once the box disappears.  Just asking cause I'm going to bed soon and the current test image is only at 10 percent.

4. Can the program do one lighting pass and save it for everything that does not change to free up proccessor power for the stuff that changes?

Thanks,

 

David