Big Animations
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I am attempting to export an animation from a 100 mb model. Animation settings: size 1980x1114, ratio 16:9, 25 frames/sec, all other settings at default. sketchup exports for about 15 hours and produces a 3GB avi file. Windows Media Player will not open the file and displays the following error: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." I can export from smaller models at this resolution and can export from this model at lower resolution. Is there a limitation on what WMP can play or what SU can export? Anybody have experience with this? Thanks. (using SU8)
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First thing I'd do is download VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) and try playing it from there. WMP can be quarky with codecs and such. VLC has FAR fewer codec issues and from what I've found if it's playable, VLC will play it. That will tell you if it really is some codec issue, or a WMP issue. If VLC doesn't play it you'll almost definitely need to reexport it.
I'm not aware of any size limitation but that's possible. In the future, I'd recommend exporting as a series of .jpg's or .pngs. Then use something like VirtualDub ( http://www.virtualdub.org/ ) to compile them. That way if something goes wrong you'll at least not have to reexport the whole animation.
-Brodie
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Thanks for the tips Brodie. VLC was not able to play the video. I'm running it through VirtualDub now. It is able to open it and listed several errors. i'll try saving it from VDub and see if WMP can play it. Will report back. Just wanted to say thanks for the quick response.
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I hope you're able to salvage it. I'm running a similarly large animation now and have run into my own little set of issues (textures jumping around and such). Good luck,
-Brodie
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I was finally able to get it to work. In the VirtualDub help file I discovered that Windows Media Player doesn't like anything bigger than 2 Gigs - this project produced an animation of about 3 GB from 60 scenes. So I made 3 Sketchup model files. The first had the scenes 1-30, the second had scenes 30-60, and the third had scenes 60 and 1 (to produce the loop-back-to-start animation). I exported all 3 animations and they each worked on WMP. I then brought them into VirtualDub, deleted the overlapping sections and spliced them all together. This produced a 3 GB file that runs succefully in WMP. Thanks for the help.
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I thought I'd mention that your framerate and resolution was a bit strange. 1920 x 1080 is 16:19, nto 1920 x 1114; and the ideal framerate is 23.97 or just 24 frames a second, not 25. I understand that you solved the problem, but I would suggest using those parameters, as they're more ideal.
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