Exporting Sketchup Movies form Adobe Premiere - HELP!!
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Hi there. I'm a forum newbie so please bear with me!!
I've exported my sketchup animtion as stills (jpegs) and imported them into adobe premiere as numbered stills. Within premiere, the quality of the movie looks fine but when I export its coming out either too blurry or too 'jaggedy'. Can somebody please tell me the best settings in order to export a SKUP animation? I'm not great with premiere so the amount of options available is a bit confusing for me!
I've gone through the tutorials on here and I'm still having problems. The specifics of my project are:
Skup frame size - 1300 x 887 (after being downsized in PS)
Proposed use of movie - marketing material (so to be shown on a big screen)Thanks in advance and if someone could help me out today/tomorrow morning it would be much appreciated as my deadline is tomorrow afternoon!!! Please help!!
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I've been through this process several times before. I don't have Premiere installed currently so I may not be able to give you specifics.
Here's the tutorial I usually followed http://forums.sketchucation.com/sas/Tutorials/Smooth%20animations%20from%20Sketchup2x.pdf
Firstly, the downsizing in photoshop COULD be an issue. I wouldn't necessarily think so since it will end up getting downsized one way or another but I would tend to let Premiere do that for you rather than PS. May be something to try at least.
What sort of format are you wanting to output to - DVD or are you just running it from a computer? The tutorial above suggests .avi which is fine. Most of the general animation advice I've seen lately is in love with quicktime using h.264 compression.
Also, I'd revisit your final resolution. Why 1300x887? You should output to the highest resolution your screen can handle. If it's a big screen then you're probably looking at 1920x1080 (1080 hd quality 16:9 ratio). You do have the right idea, though with outputting from SU at a higher resolution than that, particularly if you're using a style with the Lines turned on. I usually output to something like 3,000px wide or so from SU.
-Brodie
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Hi brodie, thanks for your reply. I'll take note of everything youv'e said and implement it straight away.
I'm exporting it as an AVI to be run from a machine (rather than a DVD) but I'm having a real problem with all the various settings.
Are the best settings a Microsoft AVI with Cinepack Codec? When I do this you can only export it at 720 px wide. How can i increase this?
thanks again,
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I do not have Adobe Premiere but what I can suggest is to stay away from the Cinepack codec. One of the worst available. Try something mp4 or similar.
Although these are for video sharing sites, they are valuable info on quality compression:
http://vimeo.com/help/compression
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=55744What I generally do when exporting image sequence is to export it at double size then resample the images in an application that supports batch processing with nice antialiasing. This will also make your edges a bit thinner and first of all, much crisper than the normal SU output. Then use a compression type that does not destroy the quality too much (Cinepack does unfortunately).
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