HD broadcast use possible?
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I've been away from Sketchup for a year having rejected it's use for my project. The project consists of fairly simple animations of equipment and terrain for insertion into an HD 1920x1080 broadcast program for cable.
One year ago, I could not animate with Sketchup because of the flickering edge detail and so forth. But, this morning I viewed a couple of animations on Youtube that looked pretty darn good.
Is it now possible to produce flicker free animations with Sketchup Pro? Fingers are crossed.
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Yes, the main 'trick' is to export the animation as a series of images that are bigger than you need (and with no SU anti aliasing), then downsize them all in an external program and finally put them all together with something like virtualdub.
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So, it sounds like a workflow would be to build the animation entirely in Sketchup, then output the animation at twice the size needed as a series of .png images without SU anti aliasing and then bring into After Effects for additional effects if desired.
Are there any tips for which style to use in Sketchup to produce the cleanest simple animations, or anything else along that line? Also wanted to ask if animations could be output with an alpha channel background.
Thanks.
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On Mac's, .pngs automatically export with transparent backgrounds.
PC's don't, however. I believe there ways of doing it with either rendering plugins (twilight, podium, vray, etc), or perhaps just adjusting the colors and shadows of the model to white and black and re-exporting the animation frames, to come up with alpha frames for the entire animation.
I've not tried it on a film though, just on one frame photos.
Chris
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