Blender addon — version 1.0.8 · requires Blender 4.2+

Cameraide gives every camera in your scene its own independent render settings. Switch cameras and the output format, resolution, frame range, and file path switch with it — no more manually re-configuring the Output panel between shots.

1. Download or clone the repository as a folder named Cameraide.
2. In Blender: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install and select the folder (or the zipped folder).
3. Enable Cameraide in the add-on list.
4. The panel appears in the 3D View sidebar under the Camera tab.

1. Open the Camera tab in the 3D View sidebar.
2. Click the camera name button at the top of the Cameraide panel to befriend it (button highlights).
3. Configure resolution, frame range, output path, and file format for that camera.
4. Select a different camera — the panel updates to show that camera's settings.
5. Press Snapshot, Playblast, or All Cameras to render.

[ CAM_A ]                        ← befriend toggle (active camera)

▶ Cameraide Cameras              ← collapsible list
▶ Other Cameras

▼ Resolution
    Presets ▾
    [ 1920 ] ⇄ [ 1080 ]
    Percentage ████████ 100%

▼ Frame Range
    Mode: Per Camera ▾
    Start [ 1 ]  End [ 250 ]
    Step  [ 1 ]
    [ Sync OFF ]

▼ File Output
    /path/to/output/
    subfolder/
    filename
    ▶ Advanced
        ☐ Overwrite Existing
        ☐ Include Camera Name
        ☐ Burn Metadata

▼ File Format
    [ PNG ][ JPEG ][ EXR ]
    [ MP4 ][ MKV  ][ MOV ]
    ▶ Advanced
        (format-specific settings)

┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ Viewport        Normal         │
│ [ Snapshot ]    [ Snapshot ]   │
│ [ Playblast ]   [ Playblast ]  │
│ [ All Cameras ] [ All Cameras ]│
└────────────────────────────────┘

Each camera independently stores its settings. The befriend button at the top of the panel toggles Cameraide on or off for the current camera. The panel displays two collapsible lists — one for cameras with Cameraide enabled and one for the rest — making it easy to see at a glance which cameras are set up and to jump between them.

Resolution X/Y, a swap button, and a percentage scale are stored per camera. A Presets menu sits above the inputs for quick access to common resolutions. Whenever you adjust these values the native Blender Output panel updates immediately so the viewport and render settings stay in sync.

Two modes are available:

• Per Camera — explicit start, end, and step fields. An optional Sync toggle pushes these values to the scene timeline whenever this camera is active, so the timeline always reflects the current camera's range.
• Timeline Markers — Cameraide reads the timeline markers bound to this camera and derives the frame ranges automatically. Useful for multi-shot sequences on a single timeline.

Frame start is clamped to at most end − 1; frame end is clamped to at least start + 1.

When you befriend a camera, Cameraide auto-detects which mode is appropriate based on whether timeline markers are present, and shows a warning if the current mode conflicts with the scene state.

• Output Path / Subfolder / Filename — full per-camera control over where renders are saved.
• Advanced (collapsible sub-group):
  • Overwrite Existing — skip frames already on disk.
  • Include Camera Name — append the camera's object name to the filename.
  • Burn Metadata — embed render information into image pixels.

Six formats are available in two rows of buttons:

Format-specific settings live inside a collapsible Advanced sub-group:

Alpha Transparency is a per-format flag — enabling it for PNG does not affect EXR or ProRes, and vice versa.

Audio is controlled by the codec dropdown. Select No Audio to disable audio; select any other codec (MP3 is the default for new cameras) to enable it and reveal the bitrate field.

Changes made in Cameraide are pushed to Blender's native Output panel immediately. Changes made directly in the native Output panel are detected via msgbus and written back to the active camera's Cameraide settings:

• Format/codec changes (native Output → Cameraide) are handled by a dedicated callback subscribed to ImageFormatSettings and FFmpegSettings.
• Resolution/transparency changes (native Output → Cameraide) are handled by a separate callback subscribed to RenderSettings.

The two-callback design prevents resolution writes from accidentally triggering a format revert, and a _syncing_native guard prevents feedback loops.

The render panel is always visible at the bottom of the Cameraide panel whenever a camera with custom settings is active. It is split into two columns:

• Snapshot — renders a single still frame.
• Playblast — renders the full animation range for this camera.
• All Cameras — batch-renders every Cameraide camera in sequence.

Operators fall back to the scene camera when no camera object is explicitly selected, so the buttons are never unexpectedly greyed out.

All Cameras builds a queue of (camera, start_frame, end_frame) tuples from every Cameraide camera in the scene. Jobs run one at a time — the next job starts only after the current one completes — via Blender's timer system to keep the UI responsive. Cameraide's own camera-switch handler is suspended during batch runs to prevent it from interfering with the sequential camera switching. All native render settings are fully restored after each render via RenderCleanupManager.

See repository root for license information.