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Steve Hutana
2006-03-29, 11:06 PM
I have just completed anumber of AVI from Revit averaging 100 -200 meg each.

Outcome is Awesome at shade and shadow,
25 f/p/s
1400 total frames
acceleration set to .1 - to .3
image frames 400x300 ( better for projections).
256 meg graphics card.

The AVI's on their own are perfect for what I want which clarity, controlled speed and 2D path controll at developed concept stage.

Heres the But.....!

My "Poor" little vehicle for streaming AVI and high res JPEGS together into a presentation to the client has "previously" been......MS movie maker. Previously I have had had only 1-2 AVi's with stills with average output quality which was acceptable at feasiblility.

In my final presentation I had 5 movies and stills totaling nearly 1 gig (no full rended images either). MS Movie "maker" degraded the AVIs to the point that I was waiting for Charlie Chapman to leap into the frame! when played on MS Movie "Player"
In other words the AVIs were terrible and pulled the whole presentation down which is unacceptable especially after 24hours at the PC solid (nearly killed me).

I have had to out source to a TV graphics consultant to achieve clarity.

I would like to know what :"Vehicle" Revit Peeps are using to deliver AVI and JPEGS on?

There are freeware progs around, and premier for streaming footage together at a cost. I know A/Desk have some products. Are you using them, do they work?

Interestingly I contacted my A/D resellor who said they have no vehicle as they simply do single AVI's to date, which puts us a little in the pioneering arena down here in hobit land.

Any assistance appreciated.

dhurtubise
2006-03-30, 12:58 AM
I personnaly use Adobe Premiere and After Effects but the final output is NEVER an avi. Mostly Quicktime Movie for better playback

Gene Herring
2006-03-30, 01:30 AM
Adobe Premiere, AE, Encore DVD here too. It is by far the most affordable means of producing very high end post product. Compositing, smooth transistions from High res stills to the animations are easy. If you are really after the good stuff, throw 3DS Max in and you have a kick butt package! Encore DVD allows for some real cool navigation capabilities for customers from thumbnail navbuttons. You can put a Hell of a lot of compressed video on a 4.7 GB DVD! I also use the Main Concept encoder for Premiere which maintains a very high quality video to compression ratio. Hope this helps.

Mr Spot
2006-03-30, 04:01 AM
I use http://www.virtualdub.org/

Its great when you just need to combine avi's/jpgs... relatively simple to use and best of all free...!

AP23
2006-03-30, 07:39 AM
Has anyone tried Autodesk's version for video editing like combustion, inferno etc?

truevis
2006-03-30, 11:33 AM
http://www.ulead.com/images/2005_logotype/logo_vs.gif (http://www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm) http://www.ulead.com/vs/ $89.99

Makes a very nice job of it. Pans and zooms over stills, etc. Drag an MP3 onto the soundtrack.

Easy to use, not like Premier, which is a monster.

It only outputs DVD resolution at most, though (720px wide). Last time I checked.

truevis
2006-03-30, 11:45 AM
Has anyone tried Autodesk's version for video editing like combustion, inferno etc?
From the little I've seen of it, I'd think that if Revit could output the 3D format the Combustion uses, it could be very useful. I think you can add materials to faces, etc.

Doug
2006-03-30, 11:53 AM
Here is a link to put together AVI and other video stuff. I have used it in the past and works great and best of all it is FREE!

http://www.radgametools.com/

Last time I did a walk thru, I saved it frame by frame and used a program that was listed at www.accustudio (http://www.accustudio/) .com to re-number the frames. This program is FREE.

I love that word FREE!