Muvizu forum - Recent Posts http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/recent.aspx Muvizu forum - Recent Posts en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:34:38 GMT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:34:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic540-my-first-little-animation--david-brent.aspx Topic "My first little animation - David Brent" a message from bobbus74 So here's my first little animation. Not very long but I'm just getting the hang of it at the moment. Hope you like it anyway...


]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:34:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic539-jacob-patterboon-part-2.aspx Topic "Jacob Patterboon Part 2" a message from Than
]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:53:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic512-ase-import.aspx Topic "ASE import" a message from Than Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:21:34 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic512-ase-import.aspx Topic "ASE import" a message from Stonehead Jim told me a trick to get over the colour selection ...basically you import and select "use ID Textures" then the box is a much smaller version.
As to the other problem of disappearing faces and textures on reload I'm afraid I get exactly the same however Jim has posted today saying there is an update coming soon to fix it ...I have been using the pink strange looking models as place holders and reloading them when I am ready to render ...a bit of a bugga but the render is fine

Good luck Ian]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:36:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic533-unable-to-update-muvizu.aspx Topic "Unable to update Muvizu" a message from bobbus74 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:31:23 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic512-ase-import.aspx Topic "ASE import" a message from Than I have the bmp in C:\ut3\toto.bmp at 256x256 pixels.

The mesh allows me to change the colours fine and has more than 2 colour id's to change and all is good (unless too many colours means you can't get to the bottom of the box.)

But on saving and reloading the set the mesh has just 2 colours and seems to have a lot of the surfaces disapeared.

This seems to happen with every mesh from sketchup and I even tried the Map Alpha to > Opacity Mask option too.

Help please...
edited by Than on 9/9/2010]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:25:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic492-motion-jpeg-dont-overlook-it.aspx Topic "Motion JPEG (Don't overlook it!)" a message from Frendor
Before you rush out to the optician its worth noting that red and blue colours on objects within the Muvizu world will still be red and blue whether your're using YV12 or RGB32. It's only the lighting that changes!

At least it is for me, but then again I'm overdue an eye check-up! :-)

Frendor.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:50:43 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic537-how-does-youtube-work.aspx Topic "How does Youtube work?" a message from barrys http://www.ifunia.com/youtube-column/best-youtube-video-format.html]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:06:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic537-how-does-youtube-work.aspx Topic "How does Youtube work?" a message from barrys
I know a little bit about it, but not much. Anyway, in a nutshell:

-Stick to widescreen (16:9 format)
-Upload the highest resolution possible. youTube prefers 1280x720 or 1920x1080
-Don't add your own black bars to simulate widescreen. youTube auto-detects your resolution and adds its own if necessary.
-Upload the best quality video you have. Try to limit the number of times you compress a video. For a start this means getting a VERY good quality video out of Muvizu (try lossless JPEG)

-youTube will also struggle with interlaced movies. Stick to full frames. So 1080i is bad, 1080p is good, as is 720p

-It's generally accepted that MPEG4 files (of which there are many flavours: DIVX, XVID, MOV, WMV) offer the best quality vs file size. You get a high quality movie for a small file size.

-I think it prefers 30 frames per second, but I'm not sure




em, that's it I think




Barry]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:05:41 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic537-how-does-youtube-work.aspx Topic "How does Youtube work?" a message from davidbowman2001
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=132460]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:04:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic538-cool-news.aspx Topic "Cool news!!!" a message from clemenswonderworks






http://filmbooksocialgocom.socialgo.com/members/profile/3]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:46:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic537-how-does-youtube-work.aspx Topic "How does Youtube work?" a message from Frendor

No seriously, its evident that most up-loaders don't have a clue (Me included) and the vids on YouTube showing how its done also don't have a clue!( I'm talking wrong aspect ratio's etc. etc.) Anyway, I just spent the last hour on Youtube looking at such vids and the norm seems to be 'select file' hit 'upload'. Well that wont to at all!


You see I've just spent the last few weeks learning the basics of Muvizu and Première Pro and I don't want to totally mess it up now!(whether the movie is rubbish or not is another thing) So I want to get the uploading correct, what I mean is I want to get the format right, if possible I don't want Youtube to do any further encoding.


So...I have two formats of the same little movie, one's H264 (Mp4) 1280x720 and the others FLV/F4V 1280x720 both are around 125MB and a tad under 3 minutes, I'm pretty sure the H264 (mp4) is on the right tracks but I'm not sure about FLV/F4V.


The question is does anybody know the correct formula for up-loading HD vids to YouTube?


Has always thanks for your help.


Frendor.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:26:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic497-importing-from-google-sketchup.aspx Topic "Importing from Google Sketchup" a message from Than

Still, great tutorial.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:09:01 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic512-ase-import.aspx Topic "ASE import" a message from Stonehead I have just had some success with imported ASE's but I had to set them up before rendering... the ouput was fine.

Cheers Ian]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:50:20 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic512-ase-import.aspx Topic "ASE import" a message from glasgowjim
There is a fix being implemented at the moment, so it should make it's way into the release pretty soon.

Take care,
-Jim.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:04:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic536-camera-animation.aspx Topic "CAMERA ANIMATION" a message from glasgowjim
Sorry you are having trouble - could you please tell me what version of Muvizu you are running? You can find out by going to the "About" tab and the version is the black text on the bottom of the window that appears.

Take care,
-Jim.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:16:25 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic497-importing-from-google-sketchup.aspx Topic "Importing from Google Sketchup" a message from glasgowjim
Sorry about that - I will be re-recording the audio for it tomorrow (my voice should be back to normal by then) and submitting a new version - which will also have subtitles and big, bold text showing any file locations that may be difficult to read. (They looked fine on my PC - I didn't realise that they would be so difficult to read on YouTube)

I will also (hopefully) get one or two other tutorials uploaded tomorrow, so you will see how to add proper collision to your models.

Take care, and hopefully the next one will be a bit easier.
-Jim.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:13:56 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic535-additional-textures.aspx Topic "Additional textures" a message from glasgowjim
The extra textures that you can access are the ones that are present in your "Stills" section on your profile, for instance when I log in I gain access to my profile picture that I use on here.

It means that if you use Muvizu on a couple of different machines you can upload custom textures to your stills section and access them from Muvizu on any PC.

Take care,
-Jim.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic536-camera-animation.aspx Topic "CAMERA ANIMATION" a message from blowe56789 am i missing something i am running movizu beta]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic532-how-do-you-get-the-best-out-of-muvizu.aspx Topic "How Do you get the Best Out Of Muvizu" a message from glasgowjim
Toonarama is right - you should be able to run Muvizu on that machine, but the processor and amount of RAM may be a bit on the low side. The graphics card should be fine though.

If the processor is Dual Core then you should be fine, if not then it might be slightly underpowered.

1GB of ram is less than I would recommend, so I would advise getting another stick of RAM - ideally a 2GB one but the motherboard might only support an extra 1GB stick.

If the motherboard supports DDR PC6400 (not all do) then these should do the job:

1GB:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2231927&CatId=1872

2GB:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3322895&CatId=3410

If not then these should be ok:

1GB:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1558820&CatId=1654

2GB:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3128122&CatId=3409

If I were you I would try to find out the exact processor that it has and, if possible, the exact motherboard that it has as well.

Take care,
-Jim.
edited by glasgowjim on 9/9/2010]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:43:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic460-blender-249-ase-export-tips-n-tricks.aspx Topic "Blender 2.49 ASE Export Tips n Tricks" a message from Mach Picture on my Blog:
http://machinima-studios.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-feature-for-muvizu.html
edited by Mach on 9/9/2010
edited by Mach on 9/9/2010]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:35:28 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic534-the-truth-moon-landing.aspx Topic "The Truth- Moon Landing" a message from nastyM Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:35:12 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic533-unable-to-update-muvizu.aspx Topic "Unable to update Muvizu" a message from Mach Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:33:10 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic533-unable-to-update-muvizu.aspx Topic "Unable to update Muvizu" a message from glasgowjim
That error indicates that the Muvizu launcher cannot write to the Program Files directory - have your tried right-clicking on it and running it as an Administrator?

If that doesn't work try reinstalling it do a different directory (such as C:\Muvizu).

Please let me know how you get on.

Take care,
-Jim.]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:25:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic532-how-do-you-get-the-best-out-of-muvizu.aspx Topic "How Do you get the Best Out Of Muvizu" a message from toonarama I can run Muvizu successfully (although jumpily) as long as I keep the scenes simple with this spec
PentiumD 930 (P) DC 3.0 GHz
· 800 MHz front side bus
· Socket 775
Chipset
Intel 945P
Motherboard
· Manufacturer: Asus
· Motherboard Name: P5LP-LE
· HP/Compaq motherboard name: Emery-UL8E
Memory : 1GB

Hard drive
· 250 GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec)
· 7200 rpm
Video Graphics
GeForce 7300LE
· 64 MB DDR memory
· I/O Ports: VGA, Composite, S-Video]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:31:00 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic492-motion-jpeg-dont-overlook-it.aspx Topic "Motion JPEG (Don't overlook it!)" a message from toonarama That explains it but does not explain the fact that I watched it outside Muvizu and couldn't tell the difference - time to see the optician I think!
Much appreciated

Toonarama]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:25:58 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic355-collection-of-set-files-for-all-as-public-domain.aspx Topic "Collection of .set files for all as Public Domain" a message from Than
One more by Spenmixa, railway scenes

see http://www.moviesets.org/indexp4.htm]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:17:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic497-importing-from-google-sketchup.aspx Topic "Importing from Google Sketchup" a message from tripfreak
You saved my day...

...but you ruined my evening !
Due to the bad sound quality I understand "UTC" instead of "UT3".
It worked, and unfortunately the model came out in pink, but only with 2 colours.
So, I tried every option that could be possible and even graded up from Sketchup 6 to 8.

Finally I made some pictures (tested also other objects) and prepared zip-files for your bug report section.
And then...
i found this little inconspicuous line in the other thread:
*BITMAP "C:\ut3\toto.bmp"
Suicide

Ok,my fault !
Nevertheless, you're my hero !]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:59:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic355-collection-of-set-files-for-all-as-public-domain.aspx Topic "Collection of .set files for all as Public Domain" a message from tripfreak
I also saved some of the older sets, but yours are really cool ! Cool]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:37:28 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic526-3-point-lighting-tutorial.aspx Topic "3 Point Lighting Tutorial" a message from tripfreak
That's indeed a great help ! Cool]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:31:23 GMT