topic Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus? in Visualization

how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:20:36 GMT

I am trying to make my first major rendered animation in ArchiCAD 9 (with LightWorks).

Everything looks great, but my movie is over way too fast and the camera-view looks almost like Clark Kent running through Smallville at super-speed.

How do I make a longer, and much slower Quicktime movie in ArchiCAD 9? Any help will be greatly appreciated, and there is no such thing as too many suggestions here, guys.

thanks!

Grenderer

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:48:43 GMT

Tips in this thread might help you... http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7945

or do a search of the forum (button above) for more advice.

Cheers

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:21:45 GMT

s2art wrote:
Tips in this thread might help you... http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=7945

or do a search of the forum (button above) for more advice.

Cheers

Thanks so much!!!

grenderer

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Dwight — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:43:50 GMT

While I like to harp on my favorite gripe about ArchiCAD fly-throughs being impossible to smooothly accelerate and manoever, properly exploiting the best quality LightWorks images means using larger, high-quality images represented as a few cross-fading captioned slides rather than many smaller, poor quality images.

Try it:

faster rendering, clearer imagery and better communication in all respects.

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:15:37 GMT

You could be a politician Dwight, not answering the actual question. The difference in your case is that you actually make sense though!

Buttering up the bosses to get that book....

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Dwight — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:23:34 GMT

At ACUE this year, the Artlantis guys went through a big rigamarole to make a fly-through with Artlantis R (a great software for pirates: "Artlantis… arrrrr!") that doesn't have multiple cameras right now.

I sat back and wondered why they bothered: there wasn't more actual information in the animation than five good renderings would provide and the path was stilted. Lot of work to try to be cinematic and still failing.

What is this obsession with bad movie-making?

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

rjwilden — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:22:26 GMT

Is there a cheap program that enables you to pan and zoom into and across a still image. I have seen this done to good effect and think it might be a better alternative to movie animations and a lot quicker to set up.

Richard.

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Dwight — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:29:46 GMT

There is a fine program I recommend called:
Still Life.

It allows the programmed transition of slides and all the panning/zooming a lad needs.

soundtrack, too.

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

rjwilden — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:03:24 GMT

Looks like this is a Mac product, any other for windows. Looked like it would do the job though.

Richard

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Dwight — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:52:09 GMT

With some minor tricks, both PowerPoint and Keynote can easily do the same tricks as Still Life - except the rotating.

You just cross fade between different places on the same image.

Get creative with those multi-media tools. A slide show isn't JUST a slide show any more...

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Djordje — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:06:55 GMT

To get back to the topic - what is needed is to increase the number of frames. You need at least 15 frames per second.

Measure (approximation is enough) the lenght of the path that the cameras "walk" At the normal walk speed, you will find out the time required in seconds. Multiply by 15 to get the minimal number of frames.

That's it ...

To get off topic again, I do agree with Dwight that a good slide show is more effective than a walkthrough. On a different note, it does have less of a WOW! effect.

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

TomWaltz — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:41:32 GMT

grenderer wrote:
I am trying to make my first major rendered animation in ArchiCAD 9 (with LightWorks).

Everything looks great, but my movie is over way too fast and the camera-view looks almost like Clark Kent running through Smallville at super-speed.

How do I make a longer, and much slower Quicktime movie in ArchiCAD 9? Any help will be greatly appreciated, and there is no such thing as too many suggestions here, guys.

thanks!

Grenderer

One alternative is to let it rocket through then use a video editing program (I use Final Cut Pro) to slow them down as needed.

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:10:15 GMT

Djordje wrote:

To get off topic again, I do agree with Dwight that a good slide show is more effective than a walkthrough. On a different note, it does have less of a WOW! effect.

And what is a walkthrough except a slide show with a lot of slides in a specific order?

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

TomWaltz — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:14:56 GMT

Millard wrote:
Djordje wrote:

To get off topic again, I do agree with Dwight that a good slide show is more effective than a walkthrough. On a different note, it does have less of a WOW! effect.
And what is a walkthrough except a slide show with a lot of slides in a specific order?

the problem with that idea is that usually a slide show contains a sequence of specific desirable images. How many images in a walk-through are REALLY desirable? If you hit PAUSE at a random time, do you really want to see what's on-screen at that moment?

Re: how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

Dwight — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:11:42 GMT

Specific slides are also superior communications when compared to animations once captions, pauses, cross-fades and the Ken Burns effect are employed.

There are several simple slide show utilities - my favorite is mac only: Still Life.

I know that this method is more complex than making a first person shooter fly through. Here are the reasons for using a sophisticated slide show in lieu of a hastliy-visioned fly through that ignores a storyline:

1: In ArchiCAD, the camera tool is rudimentary, making smooth fly-throughs impossible.

2: High quality large images - full screen, fully detailed images that inform and satisfy. Stop and review details... 1024x768....

3: Control: pausing and captioning communicate the story in a friendly and sedate manner - more like the actual building experience.

4: Professionalism: a properly edited and considered slide show story speaks to all viewers instead of alienating those who dislike video games. You will note the absence of an ArchiCAD shotgun object in the library.