Sun Study Problem: Location, date & time tag missing

[Anonymous]

Hi there

Im having trouble with my Sun Studies, the Location, Date & Time tag that has always been "attached" to the top left corner of the movie frames in previous versions of Archicad

Since upgrading to Archicad 10 (from Archicad 8 ) any sun studies I generate are tagged with the Location, but NOT the Date and Time... wierd?

Attached is a screenshot of 2 movies, the one on the left is from Archicad 8, with the full tag, the right is from ACAD 10, with just the location tag

can anybody help me get the full tag back? Is it a setting somewhere (Ive looked in all the logical places, Sun settings, PR settings)?

I cant find any other posts on this topic so Im wondering if its a bug?

Any help would be appreciated

[Gerry Leonor]

i don't have that option to create a .mov file from the Create Sun Study window. all i have are MP4 & windows movie file. i recently installed quicktime 7.7.6.

i checked other sun studies that i created with previous versions of ArchiCAD & they all seemed to have been saved as a .mov file. not sure why my AC 18 doesn't have that option. is it an add-on?

[Karl Ottenstein]

I believe that ArchiCAD 18 no longer supports QuickTime in the Windows version, which is why there would no longer a 'mov' output option. The Mac version still does... and for Mac users, the tip below from BarbaraA to open the file in QT 7 and then 'save as' works.

If you save to mp4, you get two files output: the mp4 movie and an identically named srt subtitle file. The VLC video player and perhaps some other players will read the sidecar srt subtitle file during playback automatically.

I wish GS would have just embedded the subtitles, but they didn't. So, a workaround there is to use something like handbrake to burn the subtitles into the movie so that you can distribute the movie with time codes as in the past:

https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

[Karl Ottenstein]

PS Well, strangely, opening the mp4/m4v file in Handbrake and burning in the subtitles worked for me last summer... but after just installing the latest update to Handbrake, my source video file won't open... so your mileage may vary. But some video manipulator/editor is required to physically merge the video and subtitle files into a single file for 'normal' distribution.

[Gerry Leonor]

yup, i figured the SRT file was the subtitles file.
FYI, the VLC file is not as user friendly when it comes to sun studies as compared to Quicktime files. every time i open one these MP4 files in VLC...

1. i have to change the playback speed to 'very slow', because the videos are usually less than 3 seconds long.
2. the date/time subtitle gets superimposed with the file name for the first few seconds (real time), but goes away as soon as you start moving the cursor to different times of the video length.
3. unlike Quicktime, moving the video playback cursor does not actively change the video, instead it gets stuck at the point of pausing & will only change until you've hit Play.
4. the time stamp subtitles do not appear when you move the video play back cursor. they only appear if you've paused the video or during playback.

in short, please give us back Quicktime (.mov) or burn the time stamp onto sun studies, because without these time stamps, the sun study tool is useless.

[David Bearss]

Was struggling with this too and found jetaudio player
http://www.jetaudio.com/
that displays the subtitle time stamp without the annoying VLC player that Gerard mentioned.

[David Bearss]

And because I looked into this some more I discovered a simplified jetvideo
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/jetvideo/

have to try it later though. Gotta produce.

[Stress Co_]

Had not done a sun study using AC19, until today.
The stamp is back...
but the location "text track" (I don't think it's a subtitle)
lists the Lat./Log. instead of "City".

Anyone know of a way to change it?

Using Quicktime Player 10.3 (mac)