Welcome to PresenZ’s documentation!

PresenZ is a unique immersive movie and image format, allowing 6 Degrees of Freedom into pre-computed images.

• General Information
  • 1. The zone of view
  • 2. The two phases system
  • 3. The size of the Zone of View and the occlusion factor
  • 4. Multiboxing
    • 4.1. Merging your .PRZ images into a multibox
  • 5. Render scale
  • 6. Deep reflections
  • 7. Transparencies
    • 7.1. Standard transparency shading
    • 7.2. Glass Tagging
    • 7.3. Opacity Stencils
  • 8. Normals inside PresenZ
  • 9. The specular point
  • 10. The clipping sphere
  • 11. Rendering Resolution
  • 12. Rendering inside the ZOV
  • 13. Rendering grass, hairs and trees with the Chaotic object tag
    • 13.1. How does it work?
  • 14. Underscanning
  • 15. Motion Vectors and Animation
  • 16. Window Rendering
  • 17. Quick Tips
• PresenZ For V-Ray in 3ds Max
  • Installation
    • 1. Download and Launch
    • 2. Installation folders
    • 3. Finishing the installation
    • 4. Remove PresenZ
  • PresenZ Plug-In
    • The Render Dialog
    • Create a Zone Of View
    • The Tagging Manager
    • The Window Shape creation Dialog
  • Rendering
    • Output Render Path
    • Detecting, Rendering and merging
    • Motion Vectors And Animation
  • Distributed Rendering
  • Batch Rendering
    • CommandLine Rendering
  • Backburner Rendering
    • Linking the pre-render Max script
    • Launch Backburner
  • Window Shapes
  • V-Ray Specifics
    • V-Ray 4.x Frame Buffer Color Corrections (VBF1)
    • V-Ray 5.x Frame Buffer Color Corrections (VBF2)
    • Invisible Lights in V-Ray
    • Glass Tagging
    • PresenZ Glass Material
    • Stenciling by opacity
  • Troobleshooting
    • PresenZ toolbar is missing
• PresenZ For V-Ray in Maya
  • Installation
    • 1. Download and Launch
    • 2. Installation folders
    • 3. Finishing the installation
    • 4. Remove PresenZ
  • PresenZ Plug-In
    • The Render Dialog
    • Creating a Zone Of View
    • The Tagging Manager
    • The Window Shape creation Dialog
  • Rendering
    • Output Render Path
    • Detecting, Rendering and merging
    • Animation and Motion Vectors
  • Distributed Rendering
    • Prerequisites
    • Usage
  • Batch Rendering
    • Prerequisites
    • Usage
  • Window Shapes
  • V-Ray Specifics
    • V-Ray Frame Buffer Color Corrections
    • Invisible Lights in V-Ray
    • Glass Tagging
    • PresenZ Glass Material
    • Stenciling by opacity
  • Troobleshooting
    • PresenZ toolbar is missing
• PresenZ For Arnold in Maya
  • Installation
    • 1. Download and Launch
    • 2. Installation folders
    • 3. Finishing the installation
    • 4. Remove PresenZ
  • PresenZ Plug-In
    • The Render Dialog
    • Creating a Zone Of View
    • Zone Of View Parameters
    • The Tagging Manager
    • The Window Shape creation Dialog
  • Rendering
    • Output Render Path
    • Detecting, Rendering and merging
    • Animation and Motion Vectors
  • Batch Rendering
    • Prerequisites
    • Usage
  • Window Shapes
  • Arnold Specifics
    • Rendering Glass in Arnold for Maya
    • Using Cryptomatte
  • Troobleshooting
    • PresenZ toolbar is missing
• PresenZ Utilities
  • Merger
    • Description
    • Launching the Merger Utility
    • PresenZ Command Line Merging
  • OpenColorIO Support
    • The default OCIO profile location for the PresenZ Merger
    • Assigning a custom OCIO profile in the PresenZ Merger
• PresenZ Sequencer
  • Introduction
  • Features
  • User Interface Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Editing With the Timeline
  • Using the Directory Browser
  • Managing Filtered Content
  • Adjusting Shot Properties
  • Adjusting Shot Properties
  • Saving and Exporting
• PresenZ Dashboard
  • The PresenZ Dashboard
    • Installing The PresenZ Dashboard
    • The Dashboard UI
  • A. The workspace
    • Add Images
    • Remove Images
    • Reorder Images
  • B. Menu bar.
    • File
    • Edit
    • Edit->Settings
    • Multibox
    • Teleport
    • Help
  • C. PresenZ Viewer and play controls.
  • D. Prz image parameters.
  • E. Sound Parameters.
  • F. Multibox setup grid.
  • G. Edit teleport points window.
    • Introduction to Teleportation.
    • Entering Edit Teleport Mode
    • Adding Teleporters
    • Editing teleporters
  • The Hardware needed for PresenZ viewing
• PresenZ in Unity
  • PresenZ in Unity
    • Unity Version & Prerequisites
    • Project Setup
    • PresenZ Scripts
    • License & Watermark
    • Example Scenes
    • F.A.Q.
• PresenZ in Unreal
  • Plugin Installation
  • Setup the PresenZ movie Player
  • Movie Player Parameters
    • Transform
    • Crop To ZOV
    • Time Scale
    • Head Pos
    • Use Right eye colors
  • Blue Print
    • Events List
    • Nodes
  • Virtual Productions
    • Window Shapes Visualization
    • Multiple Windows Visualization
    • Window Alignment
    • nDisplay BluePrint
  • Watermark
  • License
• PresenZ in Houdini
  • Plugin Installation
  • Load PresenZ Node (prz_loader)
    • Input File Formats
    • Spatial Reference and Scale
    • Spatial Decompression (for prz files)
    • Compositing with przRender Files
    • Point Cloud Attributes
    • Detail Attributes
  • PresenZ Copy right to left eye
    • Functionality
  • PresenZ Visualizer Node (prz_visualizer)
    • Functionality
    • Usage Considerations
  • PresenZ Background Mask Node (prz_background_mask)
    • Functionality
    • Attribute Copying
    • Final Output
    • Usage Instructions
  • PresenZ Apply Cryptomatte
    • Parameters
    • Notes
  • Write PresenZ Node (prz_writer)
    • Supported Output Formats
    • Color Space Consideration
  • Basic PresenZ Node Network in Houdini
    • Network Overview
    • Left Eye Branch
    • Right Eye Branch
    • Combining Left and Right Eye Data
    • Final Output
    • Caching
    • Color Management
  • OCIO Color Transform Network in Houdini
    • Network Diagram
    • OCIO Transform Nodes
    • Purpose of Transformations
  • Atmospheric Effects Network in Houdini
    • Network Components
    • Usage and Adjustments
• Controls for Viewer/Player
  • The Viewer Controls
  • The Player Controls
• Licensing and Watermarks
  • Understanding the watermark
  • Licensed Viewer
    • Purchasing a license
    • Installing your license
  • Licensed Player Beta
• Copyright for Software Implementations
  • List of Software:
  • Licenses:
    • Blosc - A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library
    • Bitshuffle - Filter for improving compression of typed binary data.
    • LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm
    • ISO C9x compliant stdint.h for Microsoft Visual Studio
    • ZLIB
    • FastLZ - lightning-fast lossless compression library
    • Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
    • ILMBASE license:
    • Libjpeg license
    • libpng license:
    • Open Color IO license:
    • Open VR license
    • pystring license:
    • json11 license:
    • Jpeg9b License:
    • VP9:
• Video Tutorials
• Changelog
  • 1. Changelog Authoring Tools
    • 1.1. Update version 4.0.0
    • 1.2. Update version 3.0.0
    • 1.3. Update version 2.5.11
    • 1.4. Update version 2.5.10
    • 1.5. Update version 2.5.9
    • 1.6. Update version 2.5.8
    • 1.7. Update version 2.5.5
    • 1.8. Update version 2.4.0
    • 1.9. Update version 2.3.4
    • 1.10. Update version 2.1.5
    • 1.11. Update version 2.1.3
    • 1.12. Update version 2.0.3
    • 1.13. Update version 2.0.2
    • 1.14. Update version 2.0.1
    • 1.15. Update version 2.0.0
    • 1.16. Update version 0.10.0
    • 1.17. Update version 0.9.4
  • 2. Changelog Dashboard/Viewer
    • 2.1. Update version 4.1.0
    • 2.2. Update version 4.0.0
    • 2.3. Update version 3.0.0
    • 2.4. Update version 2.0.0
    • 2.5. Update version 1.7.0