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Very Basic Animation Question
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Very Basic Animation Question // New Users
Post by johnhoward // Apr 20, 2008, 6:36pm
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I am just beginning to study animation and have already made an animation involving a moving object and moving camera. Very neat. Now I would like to turn this little animation into a .wmv file. I can find nothing in the manual about saving except saving clips as RsClip files. And clips appears to apply only to single objects.
How do I save the whole scene as a finished movie? Thanks for any clues. |
Post by Burnart // Apr 20, 2008, 7:04pm
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Save the animation in a frame sequence of image files bmp, jpg whatever and assemble in a 3rd party program. Pretty sure you can't do it straight from tS - not a wmv anyway. |
Post by trueBlue // Apr 20, 2008, 8:34pm
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If you are referring to Workspace, select the Render to File icon as shown highlighted. Each frame is rendered as an image in sequence. There is a video in the Manual that gives you a very brief example. Then compile your images in a 3rd party editor as Burnart has said. |
Post by johnhoward // Apr 21, 2008, 5:48am
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Thank you Burnart and Trueblue,
That was the answer. I had looked at some of the 8 videos in the "putting it all together" section of the manual, hunting for that answer, but failed to look at the second to last video.
Also, could you recommend a 3rd party program to compile the images. I tried Windows Movie Maker. It worked, but the minimum duration appears to be .125 seconds - way to long, making for a super slow motion movie.
Thanks again. |
Post by Jack Edwards // Apr 21, 2008, 7:09am
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I recommend Sony Vegas for your video editing:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp
A good free solution to get you up and running is:
http://www.virtualdub.org/
You'll need to install whatever codecs you are going to use:
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
Once you've converted your files into an AVI you can then use windows movie maker to convert them to WMV.
Also useful is Windows Media Encoder (converts from AVI to WMV and has more options than WMM):
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx
If you have a 64bit OS then the 64-bit version is very nice.
For capturing your screen to video, I recommend and use CamStudio 2.0:
http://camstudio.org/
(I haven't been able to get the 2.5 beta to work for me in Vista x64, but th old version works great. :)) |
Post by johnhoward // Apr 21, 2008, 10:23am
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Thanks much, Jack.
VirtualDub is what I need. But when you write...
"Once you've converted your files into an AVI you can then use windows movie maker to convert them to WMV."
...I find that I must use WMM first to put the individual frames together into an AVI movie before I can open that in VirtualDub to reset the frames-per-second, then resave and then re-open in WMM to resave as WMV. So far, I am unable to load the individual frames into VirtualDub.
Let me know if I am confused (default is "yes"). |
Post by chamaeleon // Apr 21, 2008, 10:27am
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Another tool that may be useful is MonkeyJam (http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/). |
Post by Jack Edwards // Apr 21, 2008, 12:41pm
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To open a numbered series of frames in Virtualdub, select File->Open Video File.
Browse to and select the first image in the image sequence and click Open. ;)
@Chameleon, MonkeyJam looks like a really intersting app. Thanks for linking it! :) |
Post by Burnart // Apr 21, 2008, 12:56pm
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Lots of interesting links on this page - good on you guys!
I use Videoman 3 from Stoik to assemble frame sequences - Its very old fashioned by today's standards - kind of a poormans Premier 4. I got it a number of years ago and I don't think there has ever been an update since but it does what I want so I still use it.
http://www.stoik.com/products/videoman/
(Just visited their site for the first time in years -yep, still version 3! Apparently you get Videoman 3 for free if you purchase their morphing software Morphman 4 - I think I got an early version of that around somewhere - been so long since I used it. You can still buy Videoman seperately.) |
Post by johnhoward // Apr 21, 2008, 1:32pm
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Thanks again, Jack, Burnart. Everything is working. |
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