Animation Drafts
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In order to quickly validate your animations, you can easily render out viewport previews by checking the ``draft`` checkbox.

.. image:: _static/img/screenshots/queue-preview.png


The Workbench render engine will be used for fast rendering, textures are visible but lighting is pretty basic.

By default, previews will be saved as movies (``H264`` codec, ``MP4`` format).

| If you are usually using image sequences and you want previews to use the same output settings as final renders (e.g. create placeholder images to be used in an other compositing software)

| You can disable that in the settings panel.

This means file format (``PNG``, ``FFmpeg``...) and file output path will remain the same for final renders and previews.

.. attention::
    Be aware that you may overwrite final renders when unchecking ``Render drafts as movies``


.. image:: _static/img/screenshots/settings-preview.png

Example preview
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.. figure:: _static/img/renders/preview.png

    Drafts are very fast to render and are viewport-like quality.