Reedmac Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I wanted to see if it is possible to use a video file or animate a video file on a screen or object in Vectorworks? I know you can animate a scene with different saved views but I would love to run a video on my screens. I have seen people use Cinema 4D and wanted to see if there was a way to do it in Vectorworks or if there is a better application for adding video files to renders. Please let me know what items you are using to put videos into renders. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 As far as I know this is not possible in VW. It is fairly easy to do in Cinema 4D since video is just a texture with time. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 5, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 5, 2016 Not natively within Vectorworks no, the two fastest ways I have seen have been by exporting to Cinema4D or to Vision. Quote Link to comment
Reedmac Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 You are able to add video elements in Vision? Currently demoing Cinema 4D and it works but takes a long time to render. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 5, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 5, 2016 Well rendering will take significant amounts of time, even in C4D, there no getting around that element of the rendering really other than throwing more hardware at the problem. Vision would probably be faster but is limited to its own variant of OpenGL. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 If you exported the fast rendering VW file to C4D, it should not need more render time there as long as you don't change settings. I don't think replacing image textures by videos will take so much longer (?), at least when there is enough RAM available to avoid swapping to HDD. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I suppose if you don't care about the reflected light from the screens you could just add the video to a still image in After Effects. That would probably render a little quicker. At least with Cinema 4d you can render in the background or use Team Render so you can work on something else. KM Quote Link to comment
Reedmac Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 Thanks for all the feedback! Working on large projection screens and video mapping. Just wanted to find a way to do a quick 10 second video with the content playing on the screens and surfaces for sales reasons. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Just wanted to find a way to do a quick 10 second video with the content playing on the screens and surfaces for sales reasons. Cinema 4d will allow you to "project" your content across objects like you can with a projector in real life. Its often used in a projection mapping workflow. KM Quote Link to comment
Mike Wright Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 You'll find C4D will render video content much quicker if you use an image sequence rather than a video file, most video editors will spit out an image sequence and C4D will automatically see a sequence if you select the first frame image in a folder on the texture. Plenty of tutorials available online. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.