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Products Available To Render

3ds max (6.0+)	Alias Renderer	Lightwave	MentalRay
3ds max (via SFRender)	Chalice	Maya(5.0 or earlier)	MentalRay for Maya (5.0 or earlier)
After Effects	Digital Fusion	Maya (6.0+)	MentalRay for Maya (6.0+)
Air	Generic Scripts	Maya Vector Renderer (5.0)	Rayz
Alias PowerCaster	Houdini	Maya Vector Renderer (6.0+)	Shake
Alias PowerTracer	imgcvt	Maya Hardware Renderer (6.0+)	SoftImage
Alias Raytracer	Jig	MayaMan	XSI

This generates a job specifically for Air.

To create an Air job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

Air

With Air, you can select any of the .rib files in your frame sequence. Smedge will try to determine the frame range from the available files. It uses intelligence to determine how the frames are actually rendered:

Scene file selected	Example command line
gears.rib	air -frames 1 3 gears.rib
car001.rib	air car001.rib car002.rib car003.rib

Smedge searches for this frame number from the rear of the filename. This means, if you have other numbers in your filenames, you need to make sure that they are before the frame number in the filename.