Andy M Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Hello VW community.. I am trying to create a a fly through and produce JPEGs for each frame in the path , but its not working as I think it should or maybe it can't do what I want.. I chose Create Animation - Move Along Path - Quicktime Options - Compression type - 'Photo - JPEG' I also create a path between two views over 1 x second Now I was thinking that when I save the file it would produce 30 JPEGS, one for every frame .... but it doesn't do this it just saves a quicktime file... Does anyone know and have the time to let me in on whether it is possible to do what I am trying to do? thanks Andy .. I am using VW 2013 on a large MAC... Edited October 31, 2013 by Andy M Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I think the "jpeg" setting of what you are doing is just specifying the compression type. It looks to me like the create animation dialog is only going to make a quicktime file, and do the sequencing of frames internally. I don't think what you're trying to do is possible in VW. You would need to export to another program. Quote Link to comment
Andy M Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 Thanks Grant... .. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 31, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 31, 2013 I think the "jpeg" setting of what you are doing is just specifying the compression type. It looks to me like the create animation dialog is only going to make a quicktime file, and do the sequencing of frames internally. I don't think what you're trying to do is possible in VW. You would need to export to another program. Correct. Either a video editing software that is capable of exporting frames as images, or play the movie in a regular media player and take screenshots of which frames you are looking for. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I've opened video sequences in Photoshop in the past and extracted frames. Photoshop sees them as image sequences. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Andy M Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 Thanks for your response... with your experiences what do you think is the fastest render type in Create Animations? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 31, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) OpenGL should be the fastest, most likely followed by Hidden Line and then the various Renderworks modes. To reduce rendering time but still get decent quality, your best bet is to test render with Custom Renderworks until you get the image you want, then perform the Create Animation. The compression mode for the video will affect appearance, but should not affect the speed of the animation creation dramatically. Edited October 31, 2013 by JimW Quote Link to comment
Andy M Posted November 2, 2013 Author Share Posted November 2, 2013 HI Jim, thanks for response.. If I am to change my stored views to Custom Renderworks. Do I need to change this render for all my stored views or does the animation just see the first render in the fist stored view in the create animation sequence? Andy Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 4, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 4, 2013 If you save the view with the option to include the render mode and options, then it should restore the current rendering mode you have set, including custom renderworks. Quote Link to comment
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