@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 @fredo6 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.

@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.

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.

Think of an animated car fish tailing around a corner. The front wheels follow the path around the corner, while the back of the car swings away from the direction traveled around the corner, hence the car fish tails. I would imagine this animateted car has a second path which would control the back end of the car causing the car to appear to fish tail. I hope this illustrates what I'm after when I say object follows 2 paths. Thanks.

Tool is in beta so expect irregular behaviour. If find nest translations into groups reduces unwanted movements but I still get it from time to time.

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