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    [Tutorial] Smooth Animations from Sketchup - WIP

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    • Paul RussamP Offline
      Paul Russam
      last edited by Paul Russam

      OK, here goes with my first (EVER) tutorial.

      Its not complete yet.
      I'm posting it here so I can get comments from your good selves on whether its going in the right direction, readable, understandable etc.

      Writing is not one of my strong suits so any hints, pointers etc. would be welcome.

      EDIT:
      Final tutorial linked here (from later post below)

      Paul Russam
      English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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      • tinanneT Offline
        tinanne
        last edited by

        WOOHOO!! Paul, I haven't read it yet, but just wanted you to know how excited I was πŸ˜‰

        Executive Director : American Society of Architectural Illustrators
        AIP 30 Competition opens soon. ASAI.org

        Architectural Rendering

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        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          Hey Paul,

          I have already learnt something (about certain frames not rendering) but you just stopped at the most exciting part (let me not compare this to anything now... πŸ˜„)

          I think this will be a nice tut (although I don't have Adobe premiere but still a lot of things will most probably be useful in other programs, too).

          Gai...

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          • boofredlayB Offline
            boofredlay
            last edited by

            Thanks Paul.

            http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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              otb designworks
              last edited by

              Thanks Paul for this.

              Almost all my finished product involves animations so I am sure I'll learn something here. You must have a lot of patience to export at twice your desired size! A recent export of mine was 9750 frames@29.97 and it took something like 41 hours and that was at 1024 x 768 which was also my finished size! Needless to say, I broke it up into a bunch of smaller exports , but still.

              Any reason why you use Tiff instead of PNG? I always thought PNG's gave you lossless exports with a smaller file size than Tiff.

              The one thing I fight more than anything else is the dreaded moire. I wonder if you have any hints, short of avoiding moire prone textures, to minimize the flickering weirdness.

              Thanks!

              Cheers, Chuck

              OTB Designworks is on Youtube

              6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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              • tinanneT Offline
                tinanne
                last edited by

                This is great Paul! I'm starting a test run this weekend.

                Executive Director : American Society of Architectural Illustrators
                AIP 30 Competition opens soon. ASAI.org

                Architectural Rendering

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                • KrisidiousK Offline
                  Krisidious
                  last edited by

                  fantastic Paul... thanks.

                  By: Kristoff Rand
                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                    otb designworks
                    last edited by

                    There is a remove flicker function in Primiere?! 8O

                    I have been using quicktime pro and fotomagico for my compositing and it is getting to be time to drop the $800 (ouch) for Premiere. And this remove flicker really works? wow.

                    Thanks Paul!

                    Cheers, Chuck

                    OTB Designworks is on Youtube

                    6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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                      last edited by

                      wow, I had no idea animation from sketchup could be so intense!!!!!!!! I never even finished reading it. I had a client who wants to show a casket being put into a mosoleum animated.
                      thanks anyway for your efffort.
                      skip

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                      • M Offline
                        mateo soletic
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Paul. πŸ‘

                        [Concept Illustrations](http://concept-illustrations.com/)

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                          kenzarch
                          last edited by

                          Thanks Paul.

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                            yaza
                            last edited by

                            way to go πŸ‘ πŸ‘ 😍

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                              arvmehta
                              last edited by

                              Excellent tutorial , very similar to how are produce animations except for a twist , I don't use Premiere or After Effects but instead a piece of Free software (GNU GPL) called Mencoder . Using a commandline switch like
                              "d:\programs\mencoder\mencoder.exe" mf://*.jpg -mf fps=12:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=12000 -oac copy -o output.avi -ffourcc XVID

                              I have compressed about 2500 1200x900 frames to Xvid format in under five minutes . Notice the vbitrate=12000 , Jacking it up really improved the picture quality . You can get Mencoder here .

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                                anglaret
                                last edited by

                                Paul
                                could you re-establish the link with your tutorial please, I would like to see it
                                Thanks - Marc

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                                • Paul RussamP Offline
                                  Paul Russam
                                  last edited by

                                  Umm, I don't seem to be able to get on the su.porta.ca site

                                  I've set you a PM

                                  Paul Russam
                                  English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi Marc, Hi Paul,

                                    I hope you have received Coen's board PM about Kelly's server and the transfer of the content into the current SCF server. I hope everything will be available again soon.

                                    Gai...

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                                    • Paul RussamP Offline
                                      Paul Russam
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks Guys, thought it was something along those lines.

                                      Paul Russam
                                      English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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                                        StarWarsKnower
                                        last edited by

                                        The tutorial won't work. I click on the link, and it comes up in a new tab, then says 'HTTP Coulc Not Be Found'. Everyone says it is so good, I wan't to see it! 😞 😒 😞 😐

                                        Mike

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          @starwarsknower said:

                                          ...Everyone says it is so good, I wan't to see it! 😞 😒 😞 😐

                                          True it is a great tut - be patient, please; the srever change is just being done (as you can read in your PM).

                                          Gai...

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                                          • Paul RussamP Offline
                                            Paul Russam
                                            last edited by

                                            OK, here's an updated Tut with the first part of the Premiere stuff in it.

                                            kannonbal:
                                            I've always used TIFF's and for some reason never really got used to using PNG's.
                                            I actually had to look and see if Premiere actually imported PNG's and Low and behold it does!! Whether it will import them as 'Numbered Stills' (See the revised tut) is another matter.

                                            As for the "dreaded moire" well that's the next bit I've got to do in the tut!
                                            Here's it quickly:
                                            Select the sequence
                                            From the menu select CLIP/VIDEO OPTIONS/FIELD OPTIONS
                                            Select 'Flicker Removal'
                                            Repeat for every Sequence (Very tedious)
                                            Drag into the time line and export.

                                            EDIT:
                                            Final tutorial linked here (from later post below)

                                            Paul Russam
                                            English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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