how do I slow down my fly-thrus?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Dwight]

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.

[Anonymous]

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....

[Dwight]

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?

[rjwilden]

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.

[Dwight]

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.

[rjwilden]

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

Richard

[Dwight]

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...