About Rendering

Once you finish an animation project, you must render it to create a movie or image sequence. When you render, the layers and all other components of your project are "flattened". You can open the rendered files in combustion but you can no longer modify the paint strokes, effects, and other objects that were used to create it. Therefore, you should save the workspace files before rendering them. You can always make additional changes in the workspace file and then re-render.

You can choose to render a set of frames, the entire operator, or just save a single image. In addition, you can render in multiple sizes and in several output formats that make use of codecs (compressor-decompressors) for various video cards or web applications. These formats include QuickTime (.mov) and Video for Windows (.avi). To produce streaming media files that can be broadcast over a network or the Internet, you can use the QuickTime Streaming file format.

There are enough output options to meet your criteria, whether it be fast playback at draft quality for pre-visualization, or full frame uncompressed RGB images for final output to video.