topic Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu in Visualization

Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-through ?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:13:01 GMT

So far I've used the Internal Engine or the Open-GL. But are there some way to use the Lightworks instead. And how do I do it ?
Would the renderings become bigger (and heavier) in this way?

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Dwight — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:47:41 GMT

Pixels are pixels, so the renderings won't be 'bigger.'

As for heavier, you may need to get someone to help you lift them out of the oven, like your recent cake.

Just make the fly-thru with LightWorks set as the engine in PhotoRendering Settings.....

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:16:22 GMT

Now I noticed what I had done wrong. I had not selected rendered image as source, but kept the 3d-window as source in the fly-through.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:45:47 GMT

Now I have tried to make a fly-through with Lightworks. But it was a failure.
The renderings do not show all the elements it should. At one rendering I can see only then floor and the ceiling. At another I see parts of the furniture but the wall is missing. (I have not selected anything.)
Besides, most of the renderings shows for a tenth of a second. In every camera I put wait for ten frames.
I suppose there are something I have missed ...?

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Eduardo Rolon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:38:43 GMT

General rule

1 second = 24 frames (min)

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:37:59 GMT

I also tried, with my husbands help, to wait for 100 frames for each camera. But then AC crashed during generating the animation. But, I must try something between 10- 100 then.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Eduardo Rolon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:52:07 GMT

The basic idea is not to create a complete fly-thru from start to finish but to divide into smaller movies that then you will edit into a final movie combining them with stills.

for example:

1. Fly to the site
2. fade to still of the front facade
3. fade into the inside of the house
4. do a walk through to the next important space
5. do a series of stills that show that space
6. fade into a walk through to the back patio of the house

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Things to take in consideration:

- Each fly through should be between 5 (120 frames) to 10 (240 frames) seconds and the stills should be shown for up to 5 seconds.

- Total movie time should be between 30 to 60 secs.

- Remember to move the camera slowly and do not create abrupt changes.

- Conceptually you are doing a commercial for your project and the usual commercial on tv only lasts between 15 to 30 secs.

- Watch some tv and time the intervals between camera changes (edits) to get a feeling on the setup.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Dwight — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:54:44 GMT

What size images are you making?

Tell us the machine spex.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Eduardo Rolon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:12:15 GMT

Also for video the image size should be 720px x 1280px (at 72 dpi)as a medium HD resolution.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:31:39 GMT

The size of the renderings are 1106 x 530 px.

My computers CPU is a Intel(R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU E7300.
Memory is 4GB.
Experience index for Windows Vista is: 5.5

But what sort of program should I use to put the movies together?
Now I just run them in QuicktimeReader. Could I use the QuickTime Pro ?
How do I do the fading?

Now I've ordered your book Lightworks in ArchiCAD, Dwight.
I hope it also contains some advice regarding fly-throughs.

Tonight I go up in the mountains and stay for a week, so I'll not be online.
But hopefully I find some useful advice here when I come back home.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Eduardo Rolon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:25:32 GMT

The easiest and cheapest is Premiere Elements if you are Windows in Mac iMovie is another alternative to PE.

Or you can try to do it in Windows Movie Maker but I do not recommend it.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:56:23 GMT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6HpyYTYHM
This wall-througth is a recording of a vbe presentation.
I made the vbe presentation, then calculated global ilumination, and then you have the vbe app. In mac with screenflow or camtasia you can record what you see in your monitor and then with movie you can edit if you can (picture in picture fly...)
I think that this metod is faster than rendering with openg-gl.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:56:22 GMT

Thanks for all you response. And I looked at your animation at YouTube. Cool! I would like to do something like the interior-part of it. But I would like to use renderings with Lightworks.
Now I've bought Premiere Elements and installed it. I thought I should start with creating renderings.
I added several cameras with 1m between each, and the turns were a rendering every 15 degrees.Then I started a fly-through. Source is from renderings. But the renderings became like the picture below, even much more layers are turned on.
Maybe I should take one snapshot at a time, and store it to the folder I will use to create animations in Premiere Elements. But are there someone that understand why my renderings become like this?

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:18:17 GMT

I've started to use Premiere Elements, but I have a problem:
Is it possible to change the framesize? I can't figure out through the help-system. I've made jpgs that has a size of 720 X 1280 px as recommended, but now I can see the project preferences says framesize of 720 x 576 px. The clips has very low quality even the highest quality for playback is selected. I suppose this has something to do with mismatch in frame sizes.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:25:12 GMT

Now I've tried to make a slideshow in Premiere Elements from Lightworks renderings. But they get this "jumping effect" every time the clip is changed.
Jose Gemez, how do you make vbe-presentations?

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:21:45 GMT

I make the model in archicad and then export to vbe, calculate global ilumination and save as .app aplication.
Star the .app aplication and screenflow. Screenflow save everything that you can view in the monitor and can record the microfone sound if you wish.
I do litle postprodution with imovie (the watermark, intro, titles...) and export to .mov
In windows you can use fraps.
I made a video explain the vbe model (in spanish, sorry) abotu 18:30 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT2eg2-17Q

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:46:18 GMT

This must be a part of AC I've never heard about earlier. How do you export to vbe? Is it some format in the Save As command, or...?
Unfortunately I'm not able to speak, nor understand spanish.
My youngest son learns it at school, but he's knowledge of spanish is hardly that good that he could understand your video.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

David Maudlin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:23:54 GMT

vbe is Virtual Building Explorer, a paid add on for ArchiCAD.

David

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:35:26 GMT

David wrote:
vbe is Virtual Building Explorer, a paid add on for ArchiCAD.

David

Just to make sure it's clear. You have to own the add-on to export the files.

Re: Is it possible to use the Lightworks to make a fly-throu

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:52:25 GMT

Thank you very much for your information. I think I continue with the approach I originally choosed. Before I got to know it was an add-on, I confused it with Visual Basic (VBE), but I thought it was odd. Could not see the connection, really