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  • J Offline
    JuanV.Soler
    last edited by 29 Oct 2008, 06:44

    You can create scenes from your model and make an animation which can be saved as an avi. format. It can not be saved as WMW
    But it is good enough for windows media player or powerpoint.

    Cheers

    ,))),

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      brodie
      last edited by 29 Oct 2008, 17:31

      You could do your animation in SU but instead of exporting it as an .avi you can export it as a series of images and then use another program that will compile those images and turn them into an animation in wmv format.

      I use Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 which can do this w/o too much of a learning curve. I think it cost $99 when I bought it about a year ago. There may be some free programs that do the same thing.

      -Brodie

      steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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        Daniel
        last edited by 29 Oct 2008, 17:57

        If you are running Windows XP, you should have Windows Movie Maker (or you can download it from Microsoft for free). You can import a wide variety of image and video formats (including avi) and create a wmv file.

        My avatar is an anachronism.

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          plot-paris
          last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 07:56

          a free program is VirtualDub, which you can download here.

          simply import the images, change the framerate from 10 fps to something between 20 and 25.

          a good thing to do is to export the images from SketchUp with a higher resolution than the final movie (two or three times higher) and then use a "resize" filter in VirtualDub to scale it down to the desired resolution. like that all the lines will be a lot crisper in your animation and textured faces look better.

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            chango70
            last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 08:46

            @plot-paris said:

            a free program is VirtualDub, which you can download here.

            simply import the images, change the framerate from 10 fps to something between 20 and 25.

            a good thing to do is to export the images from SketchUp with a higher resolution than the final movie (two or three times higher) and then use a "resize" filter in VirtualDub to scale it down to the desired resolution. like that all the lines will be a lot crisper in your animation and textured faces look better.

            Thanks! I've been looking to find a program like this. Sweeeet. 😍

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              plot-paris
              last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 08:56

              yeah. what I really like about this program (apart from being free 😉 ), is it's simple functionality. for example if nothing is selected and you press the Delete button, the current frame will be deleted. if you select a passage, you can delete that as well...

              and a lot of filter can be applied to get better results (like resize filter or a temporal smoother to make the animation less jerky).

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                cosycat
                last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 12:12

                I came across this the other day which might be useful, though I haven't had a a chance to try it out yet

                favicon

                (www.archvision.com)

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                  Gaieus
                  last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 12:23

                  Hi Cosycat,

                  Looks interesting, however it is limited to IE on Windows.

                  Hypercosm has a viewer with more browser support and it can run on Mac and Linux as well.

                  Also they have a free exporter and it can also be embedded into PP presentations.

                  Gai...

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                    rodrigonotor
                    last edited by 30 Oct 2008, 15:10

                    I use this http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm very simple and free

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                      wheay
                      last edited by 17 Nov 2008, 14:07

                      @juanv.soler said:

                      You can create scenes from your model and make an animation which can be saved as an avi. format. It can not be saved as WMW
                      But it is good enough for windows media player or powerpoint.

                      Cheers

                      thanks for the help i want to know this. good thing i found it.
                      but how do i set the size of the screen?

                      "i try to learn everyday"
                      http://designerslandmark.blogspot.com/

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                        JuanV.Soler
                        last edited by 17 Nov 2008, 14:13

                        When you export the animation you clik in OPTIONS ...


                        OPTIONS.jpg


                        OPTIONS2.jpg

                        ,))),

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                          wheay
                          last edited by 18 Nov 2008, 02:19

                          wow! thank you very much!

                          "i try to learn everyday"
                          http://designerslandmark.blogspot.com/

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                            Emily
                            last edited by 25 Feb 2009, 18:20

                            @chango70 said:

                            @plot-paris said:

                            a free program is VirtualDub, which you can download here.

                            simply import the images, change the framerate from 10 fps to something between 20 and 25.

                            a good thing to do is to export the images from SketchUp with a higher resolution than the final movie (two or three times higher) and then use a "resize" filter in VirtualDub to scale it down to the desired resolution. like that all the lines will be a lot crisper in your animation and textured faces look better.

                            Thanks! I've been looking to find a program like this. Sweeeet. 😍

                            Thank you. but I found it ends up i have to give them my credit card number with expire date. Not sure if it's safe doing this.

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                              honoluludesktop
                              last edited by 25 Feb 2009, 18:39

                              After you create the SU animation with scenes, export it as a avi, then open it with Windows Movie Maker. It comes with WinXP, but I don't know about Vista (perhaps can be downloaded from MS). From there you can add titles, special effects, audio, and then export it as a wmv
                              http://esr7kq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pF3wM26Zz7ZiWOHGwOxqw1jbgRLbChcMtTU95OECoLiTosLFz65s3nFo60x9JCRHMMkKPRQk-yx1_aT2jV42QSQ/temp01.jpg
                              file.

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                                plot-paris
                                last edited by 27 Feb 2009, 20:52

                                @emily said:

                                Thank you. but I found it ends up i have to give them my credit card number with expire date. Not sure if it's safe doing this.

                                sorry, somehow the links seems to have changed. just google 'Virtual Dub' and you will find a download link somewhere. it is definitely for free (so don't enter any credit card info! 😮 )

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