exporting animation NavisWorks Manage 2009

[gdb]

I have created a viewpoint animation and all looks good when I view the animation in Navisworks Manage 2009. I wanted to export to .avi format for presentation. I think I am following the instructions correctly when I go file, export, animation, I select current animation as the source (I have that selected in viewpoints), I select presenter for renderer(or open GL with same result), and the output as windows avi. When I hit save there is about 30 seconds where there is a window showing Preprocessing...., then nothing. If I go to the saved file there is a small .avi (101 KB) and it just shows the first frame sputtering. It never recorded the animation. Any ideas to get this exported effectively are appreciated. Presentation is Monday.

[amixam]

You need to let the renderer finish. Sometimes, especially with using presenter, the rendering process is slow. I would start your rendering now if your presentation is on Monday.

[gdb]

I found a previous AUGI post where someone recommended creating a new empty animation and moving the viewpoints into the new animation. For some reason that works. I have been hung up a couple of times with the same issue noted in the original post, but if I just create a new animation and transfer the viewpoints I am able to proceed. As far as the tip to give time to render, that is right on. It took 10hrs to render a walkthrough movie that was less than 2 minutes and that using a 6 fps setting which is relatively low!

[Teresa.Martin]

Hi. In regards to rendering out the animation...2 minutes is actually pretty long...If you think about it, even at 6 FPS (frames per second) you still have 720 frames to render...If each frame takes 1 minute, that is 720 minutes ~ or 12 hours. If each frame just took 30 seconds, that is still 6 hours. So yes, fully rendered animations will take a long time. I would try making the animation smaller (600x400) rather then say 1024x768 (screen resolution). The bigger the image, the longer it will take.
Best regards,