Animation to DVD

sadz

Dear All,

I am a bit of a newbie to SketchUp and am hoping that someone may be able to help.

Is there a way to create a high quality movie of a model animation. I have managed to burn an AVI file to CD but this was rather poor quality. Is it because my computer is not up to the task or do I need another piece of Software? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Sadz

bubbalove

I found this Tutorial a while back from Paul Russam and it works like a charm! I'm still waiting on the next level of this tutorial (hint)... hope this helps ya!

Animation Tutorial for Sketchup.pdf

plot-paris

yes, exporting still images and putting them together to a movie later on is the right way to go.
I even export images two or three times the final size and rescale them down in a batch process with photoshop (you only have to define the final resolution and ps does it automatically). thus you get very thin, crisp lines.

for the movie codec - if you have premiere elements, I would suggest one of the following:

QuickTime H264 with 50% compression will give you a reasonable quality with very small file size
Microsoft Intel Indeo Video 4.5 with 85% compression is slightly bigger and a bit better in quality, but takes about 6 times longer to create.
I got really good quality with QuickTime Sorenson3 video - it is about 4 times bigger than the first QuickTime codec. but the quality is way better. don't know if this format is supported by dvd players though

sadz

Thanks guys, I followed the tutorial and it worked a treat. The results are awesome and my client loves it!!!

I realy appreciate all the advice!