@Crimson

Thanks! i really needed this, I'm rendering it again because it deleted all the images i already rendered

@Rich-O-Brien

Thank you very much, i'll look into it.

@Just_us

I had the same issues and found on the FFmpeg site that FFmpeg does not support apple silicone. See this page https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/apple-silicon-arm

@Just_us said in Can't save date in Animator:

I have just successfully installed Lib Fredo 6 and Animator as well as FFMpeg on the PC. The animator save function works perfectly on the PC. But not on the mac. On the one hand I am happy because the students work on PCs at school. On the other hand I prefer to work on the mac in my private life. My question to Fredo is whether he could take another look at it?
Thanks for all your help

If you want to get his attention you could ask directly in this thread

Or use the @ feature so he is notified

Sharing more detail like the type of Mac, its OS and any ruby console errors

@Rich-O-Brien Thank you sir. I just find the solution, because I did not install sketchucation plugin. it's mean I need to install Lid.rbz and Sketchucation.rbz before using animator.

@gtaircooledvw hola encpontraste una solucion ?

Hello Fredo,
Thank you again for the plugin. Regarding the output of images / render: I am currently working on a very heavy project with complex elements. I found a way to work around the restrictions on exporting directly with Vray, although very time consuming: I group all the moving parts, then copy paste each position (through the positioner) into a new file. I end up with a lot of scenes, one for each frame and the non moving parts are on a different layer. I litteraly can see the animation as going through each scene. Obviously, at this point, the animation is ''locked''.
The major advantage with that is that I can use GPU render, can use render elements on V-Ray etc...
My question is: would it be possible to automate that process, create an option to export all the moving parts in different scene. I understand it can create hundreds if not thousands of scenes but it would be so helpful.
I can imagine there would be a technical limit (like, exporting 200 scenes max). Then it would require to create multiple files (one for scenes 001 to 200, then 201 to 400 etc), but in theory, such an option would be fantastic.
Thank you!

@Rich-O-Brien

Solved!
Downloaded latest version of ffmpeg via there website.

Thanks for your help anyways.

@dykassist No, I thought you were asking because your device was not capable. Writing 100s of images does take time so run it while you're cutting the grass.

Or if you've a friend/colleague with more grunt ask them to do it and still go cut the grass.

Thanks @Rich-O-Brien . That is exactly what I am trying to do. I will look into your suggestions.

First I am surprised that it takes 11:30 to generate 101 frames, which is more than 6 seconds per frame. Is your computer slow ?

I don't know where the error is coming from however. Maybe a fresh installation of LibFredo6 would help.

Did you try to click on the Preview Video button, to see if it generates the video?

@ntxdave said:

IMHO I suggest you change the name of the thread to Animator Suggestions. The current title is a little misleading. The title insinuates you are making/asking to SketchUp.

Thanks yes sorry I am new to the forum.

@aguiladorada said:

When will the Animator Prior 2017 plugin be released?

It will not. Animator works for SU2017 and above.

Here the NEW versión of the english tutorial because I miss the Last part of the tuto (Animation Technics) that was included in the Spanish version.
Here the new link:

NEW ENGLISH TUTORIAL VERSION LINK
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ur6USmBRxGFV-X_5ByE6xRRPJHLJfD2r/view?usp=drive_link

Also I give you again the link of the explanatory videos of all the examples That are included in the tuto:

YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK
https://youtu.be/Ne5k4S_DZWw?si=lZ3bQdOZwKFtaYe6

after the generation, I have this dialog only , then save and exit . Nothing appears in the Animators video , just empty folder .

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Trajectories are drawn on the viewport (i.e. there are not true edges) and are more for help.

If you have Sketchucation Tools installed use the Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support menu in SketchUp and copy/paste the text output here.

If not then you need to share the version of Libfredo and Animator you are using,

I'm done with Animation… I've tried almost everything to get this scissor mechanism done, but Animation seems te be in lack of many good functions or functions that simply don't work. I was realy hopefull when I started Animation, but it doen't offer what it promeses. I hope that Fredo6 will give attention to Animation in order to make it functional without bugs and lets hope with a users manual. For now… I will give it a try in either Blender or Cinema 4D.