adding bleed to camera

[stezza]

Hi all.
Does anyone know how to add bleed to an image?

I need to re render the image not changing it but with extra 10px for a bleed. I dont want to scale the image to create the bleed and I cant change the position of the camera.

[MoonDoggie]

Bah - Sry, this is the maya forum. On Script spot there's an overscan script for Max. I'm sure one exists for maya. Good luck!

[stezza]

Ah thanks anyway but gives me an idea of what to look for, cheers.

[Morbid Angel]

not sure what you mean by bleed. If you need overscan, then you go to camera settings, camera scale, is set to 1.0, its a % of your frame. So if you want to overscan by 10%, you can set camera scale to 1.1 and then take your resolution and multiply it by 10%, the image will be rendered exactly as your original but with 10% more around the frame borders.

[stezza]

Hi Morbid that's exactly what I was looking for, I didn't connect that 1.1overscan would be a 10% difference on resolution.
Many thanks.
S

[MoonDoggie]

Lol, well that was easy.

[Morbid Angel]

yeah things like that in maya with camera are a lot easier then in max.

[MoonDoggie]

Clearly. Someday I re-learn Maya. It's been a while. I miss the Poly Split Tool. Cut in max just isn't the same.

[Morbid Angel]

tell me about. It has never been quite like maya's. Im working in maya and max on and off, each time i favor maya, its of course a preference of an artist, but i just find it more streamlined for what we do. I do miss some max stuff, some modifiers are cool, but they don't beat the reference/node systems in maya

[mr furious]

i always find scaling the camera to be dodgey.... you can also multiply the film back (H & V Aperture) and then the resolution by the same amount (percentage) and that works very well to..... I've written a script that will change these values and store the original values of the camera in case you need to revert them.

Andy

[stezza]

Mr Furious, Good idea many thanks, is that script available?
S

[mr furious]

i'll dig it up for you.... gotta hit my archive