Exporting Walkthroughs

[aaronwsmith]

Hi people,
could someone help me out, i'm trying to export some walkthroughs using revit 2008, and i'm running windows 7. what is the best format to export the file as to give me the best quality pictures and still able to be viewed on older windows xp computers. any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

[trombe]

Hi,

.avi.
makes large files but generally is OK to play on things like windows media player so clients don't have to be tech savvy for this codec or that and everyone has some version of WMP.
one option
2c
trombe

[aaronwsmith]

yeh i get the avi part, but i get a whole heap of options to choose from like microsoft video1, fuul frames, cinepak etc... and i'm not sure which of these is compatible with windows xp media player.

[trombe]

Hi,
I used the MS codec if that helps.
trombe

[Damo]

My recent experience of exporting Walkthrough's direct from Revit is it can creation AVI files 800MB -> 1.5GB, depending on the zoom ratio etc.

I found that by bringing the *.AVI file into WIndows Movie Maker (part of the VISTA OS) (and adding some titles / credits if you wish), then exporting, or as WMM calls it 'Publish', I can get practically the same image quality for a 13MB file size. You tend to end up with a *.WMV file type, but equally playable on the default players. Huge saving in file size.