DAZ Studio 4.9 Rendering Animations

csteell_c2893e4ab6

Hi,Is there any sort of tutorial (preferably a video) on how to render animations in Daz Studio 4.9 Pro? I have searched everywhere and I can only find tutorials on earlier versions of DAZ Studio!

4.9 Pro has different settings in which I cannot find! Cheers

Kevin Sanderson

It's probably easier to ask about the settings you can't find.

DrunkMonkeyProductions

The only difference between stills and animation is going to be the RENDER TYPE setting, editor>destination>render type, and motion blur(3delight only) under the advanced tab.

For the Render Type there are three options.

Still image, the default setting

Image series; creates one image for each frame which you stitch back together in what ever video editor you use.

Movie; creates a full AVI format video.

An option that will come up when you switch to Image Series or Movie will be Render Range. This option allows you to set which frames are rendered in an animation.

The last setting is going to be Image base, for Image series, which allows you to name the starting frame and each subsequent frame will be that name plus a number at the end denoting frame number.

For Movie, it will be Movie Name, which allows  you to name the AVI file.

 

As far as the tutorials go, don't focus on the settings as much as the technique for the actual animation.

Since daz studio is limited to Keyframe animation only, you might also want to look up some videos on that as well, doesn't matter the software, just look at the technique.

I personally learned a lot more from non-daz tuts about keyframing, and how to get around daz's limitations, than from the daz tuts.

 

BeeMKay

If you are new, I recommend the help videos. The DAZ folks made them all new this year, and they are pretty good (and free). http://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials

Granville

• Still Image is just one frame  - picture - hence still
• Movie does an .avi video directly - however it's recommended to use an Image series instead
• Image Series - a whole bunch of frames of your animation rendered out frame by frame and sequentially numbered

.avi renders have to complete all the way or the whole thing is a loss. The third option allows you to resume rendering at the frame number where you left off. This is great for long animations.