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Camera Director - how's that working out for you :-)

hjakehjake Posts: 934
edited January 2023 in The Commons

I have not found any discussions concerning Camera Director ( https://www.daz3d.com/camera-director )

So my first question is did anyone buy it?

How is it working out for you?

What render engine is it using? Does it provide any performance benefit over just rendering a sequence of images and bring those into video editing software?

I understand it lets you prepare multiple cameras for render and send them to FFMPEG but I am not clear on the mechanics of the rendering.

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  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,982

    This looks like it would be amazing, I didn't even notice it on the sales page. I usually playblast all my camera angles and do a pre-edit in premiere to see when I want the edits, but having something like this where it's a multicam view to dictate when the cuts should happen would work so much easier. I'm worried though as I don't see an option to export as a png sequence, just an mp4 or gif and I need pngs. If someone does pick this up, please let me know if you can in fact export a png sequence. 

  • hjakehjake Posts: 934

    benniewoodell said:

    This looks like it would be amazing, I didn't even notice it on the sales page. I usually playblast all my camera angles and do a pre-edit in premiere to see when I want the edits, but having something like this where it's a multicam view to dictate when the cuts should happen would work so much easier. I'm worried though as I don't see an option to export as a png sequence, just an mp4 or gif and I need pngs. If someone does pick this up, please let me know if you can in fact export a png sequence. 

    I don't think this is exports a sequence of images to FFMPEG. That is why I wonder how it renders. It seems to do some kind of conversion of each image to an intermediate file which is converted to MP4 or Animated GIF.

     

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,171

    When did this get released? I check the store every night, and this is the first time I'm seeing this.

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,464

    It was released on Christmas Day - maybe you were busy?

  • hjakehjake Posts: 934
    edited January 2023

    Gordig said:

    When did this get released? I check the store every night, and this is the first time I'm seeing this.

    I guess today was an epiphany for you :-)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)

     

    I beginning to think this did not sell many copies on launch day. Maybe DAZ shouyld do something to boost this product's visibility.

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  • DrconfusedDrconfused Posts: 7

    So I have been using this and once you set it up it's pretty useful. 
    My use case is that I do turn arounds for the postures that I create, which amounts to 8 images for the turn around. Now I do minimal setup to render 8 images with a click of the button. I have not used the gif or video function yet. My only beef so far is that it automatically switches the images to .jpg which if I can't get it to keep .png I might have to stop using it and find another alternative.
    The initial setup can be a bit confusing but following either the youtube video or the pdf file helps a lot. 

  • laststand6522732laststand6522732 Posts: 866

    I just spotted this today. It looks like it could come in real handy. I watched the YT vid, it looks simple enough.

    Everything CD does I could do manually in DAZ, although it would be time consuming and error prone. What with the price of eggs today, $20 is affordable.

    I'm going to try it.

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