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[Tutorial] Smooth Animations from Sketchup - WIP

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    tinanne
    last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:28

    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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      Gaieus
      last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:29

      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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        boofredlay
        last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:30

        Thanks Paul.

        http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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          otb designworks
          last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:31

          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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            tinanne
            last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:34

            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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              Krisidious
              last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:35

              fantastic Paul... thanks.

              By: Kristoff Rand
              Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                otb designworks
                last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:38

                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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                  not registered yet
                  last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:39

                  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.
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                    mateo soletic
                    last edited by 15 Nov 2007, 16:40

                    Thanks Paul. πŸ‘

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

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                      kenzarch
                      last edited by 22 Nov 2007, 17:50

                      Thanks Paul.

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                        yaza
                        last edited by 24 Jan 2008, 09:30

                        way to go πŸ‘ πŸ‘ 😍

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                          arvmehta
                          last edited by 17 Feb 2008, 11:17

                          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 19 Mar 2008, 06:14

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

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                              Paul Russam
                              last edited by 19 Mar 2008, 08:39

                              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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                                Gaieus
                                last edited by 20 Mar 2008, 08:08

                                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 Russam
                                  last edited by 20 Mar 2008, 13:23

                                  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 22 Mar 2008, 14:37

                                    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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                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by 22 Mar 2008, 14:47

                                      @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 Russam
                                        last edited by 22 Mar 2008, 19:05

                                        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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                                          Paul Russam
                                          last edited by 22 Mar 2008, 19:06

                                          Done a bit more this lunch time and its now on a prototype SCF template.

                                          Edit:
                                          Opps sorry about the quality of the images in the PDF, I squidged them a bit too much.

                                          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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