having trouble rendering animation.

siteandsound

For some reason I am having trouble rendering animation. It's really hard to understand. In the interface, everything looks fine. But when I render it out as a movie file. An Avi in a x264 wapper. Lately I have been using mimic live. Everything is working great. When I speak I see, the lips move in real time. I'm using the emotion guy. It's a very old version. I purchased it, when poser was on version 6. I had to import character as a CR2. But it worked. At least until I rendered. But all my animations did not render. Even the ones I made with the characters inside Daz Studio. I know I'm doing something wrong. But I don't know what. Any help would be appreciated.

Richard Haseltine

What is going wrong, and at what stage? Have you tried rndering to an image sequence rather than direct to an AVI file?

siteandsound

Hi Richard, no I haven't tried that. Although that sounds pretty interesting. It seems to me you could probably do more with an image sequence, then an Avi. As far as editing goes anyway. I didn't even know you could do an image sequence in DS. I was going to look for a video tutorial on YouTube for rendering in DS. Can you recommend a tutorial on doing a image sequence in DS?

Richard Haseltine

Just set the option in the Geenral group in the Editor tab of render Settings, set the base name (which gets a number added to it for each frame) and the path - otherwise it's the same as any other render (in fact, when you render to AVI DS is still rendering an image sequence, to the temp folder, which egts turned into an animation fiel at the end - that's partly why I was asking when the issue was happening).

siteandsound

Thank you that really works good. I was worried that it wouldn't work with mimic live. But using virtualdub, and cleaning it up. Then converting WAV file to an MP3. Works very well. I compressed the file to a x264 file. Without audio. A four second video, was only 98 KB. Thank you again for the great idea!