@majid Hope everything is good, and stays that way, with you and your family.

Kind of says it all!

OK, I just tried both of the items I mentioned before and they both seem to be working again.

@majid

Wish I had the talent to do things like this.

Some more learning

Here is my latest render. Some progress I think but one thing I am still struggling a little with is setting the scene in SketchUp so that it will produce the view I want in the render.

@majid said in Merry Christmas:

Merry Christmas, mates, let's pray for a more peaceful world!![m c.jpg]

Nice images and yes, Merry Christmas and hopefully, a more peaceful world.

Making some progress.

Wow, what a great start!

Just curious, what tools/plugins (if any) did you use to draw this?

I was thinking about trying this myself. I was thinking about putting the image as a background and then drawing on top of it.

@TIG said in Silly/Dumb Question about Guidelines:

You can't do that in one step.

I tried to find where I had read that but could not find it again

Do this.
Use the Tape-measure tool to make the first at 1/2" as before click to confirm, Select the guide line, and chose the Move tool, press Ctrl to invoke Copying, make the copy off 1/2" and immediately type 9x press Enter to confirm.
Now you have 10 guides at 1/2" spacing.

As several of you have mentioned, using the Move tool is the correct way to achieve what I was trying to do.

I want all of you who responded to know I really appreciate your feedback. I now have things working and hope to post something in the next couple of days using this process.

I have not been doing much with SketchUp lately (not wanting to go into a bunch details (health related) but things are getting back and participating again.

Again, thanks to all of the feedback.

@rown2000
Since Twilight Render is going away it would also be neat if you could add Rayscaper to the list.

OK, I think I learned how to do some more things.

Here is a short video that demonstrates how to:

• Animate an object that moves across the screen

• Fades in as it moves across the screen

• Scales as it moves near the right side

• Rotates as it moves near the right side

CapCut sample test video

On the right of the screen, you will see a bunch of videos that are not mine. I need to learn how to manage that now.

Hope someone can help me. I am trying to learn more about some of the "effects" in CapCut. I have added an image to my trial project and have been able to animate it. I have it moving across the screen, rotating and scaling. Now I want to get it to fade in. I have watched some videos of how to do it, but it does not seem to be working. I have set 3 keyframes. The first one sets the fade to 0, the second one to 45% and the third one to 100% so I should be seeing it start at not showing and fade it as it moves across the screen. However, I am seeing it all through the video.

Can someone give me some advice?

For those who are interested in CapCut, here is the link to a great guide for those who are just getting started.

CapCut User Guide

Hope you find it an interesting guide. It has a lot of information about the toolbars in the application.

I think I solved the problem. It appears that I was using some features that are only available in the Pro version. For others, I had been using some animation of text. When I eliminated that, I can now generate a video.

If anyone is using CapCut (in particular the free version). I need some help.

I created a very small video and was able to upload it to YouTube. I then created a more important video that I want to share with certain individuals, but when I try to export/create the video I am getting messages trying to force me to the Pro version. Can anyone give me any advice or suggest other software to explore?

@Rich-O-Brien said:

@ntxdave said:

Can someone verify that my link is now public?

Its public

Thanks for the verification @rich-o-brien.

I will have to move on with trying to learn more about learning CapCut. It seems like a pretty strong and versatile tool.

Can someone verify that my link is now public?

@HornOxx said:

@ntxdave

Too bad—your video is private, so I can't view it. But I'm glad to hear you're making progress.
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Can you try it again. I think I made it public but I need for you to give it a try so we can see.

Just in case, here is a new link to it. `lUpdated Link (just in case)``

Well, I am making some progress. Here is a link to a video I just created and posted on YouTube. BSW Test 1

Yes, I still have a long way to go but at least this is a start. My plan is to expand this video a good bit. I have several more "slide" I want to add but it will take some time. The problem I had with the background seems to be solved (at least so far). I know I also need to add some keyframes and some other features. Let me know what you think of where I currently am.

I do not know where all of those other videos come from and I have not figured out how to all the viewer to replay the video I added.

@HornOxx said:
Yes, that’s right—I live in the Frankfurt area Where were you stationed back then?

I was stationed in Baumholder……down near Idar-Oberstein.

Hopefully I can post something later today.