Render Image Series For Animating on Twos

paehoo

Hi! I wonder how to save resources, when rendering an image serie for an animation.

I thought about animating on twos. I tried, but I think I failed or I'm just over-worked..;-)

I rendered in Daz Studio an image serie from a Daz Studio scene made in timeline with 12fps and then imported into After Effects and Premiere Pro. The final animation should then be with 24fps, with 2 identical images for two frames.

Any thoughts/hints about animating on twos would be very appreciated, thanks!

Granville

You can do this my rendering to a png sequence. Then load the png sequence into After Effects or Premier Pro and manually set the frames per second or do a time a stretch.

rames44

If you’re comfortable with the command line, ffmpeg will do this nicely as well. 

Ivy

If you have AfterEffects or Premier Pro versions over cs4 ,  you should be able to import your whole image folder into your media library and then you pull the folder assets to the timeline and it will load all the jpg or png, gif into the timeline. 

 you can do this by these simple steps  1) top of the Premier Pro film editor  click "File "-  2) scroll down the menu to "get media" and click it. 3) then choose the  folder and files option & check the box that says imports image-folder and choose your working image folder.  4) click accept.  your Done .. your complete folder with all your images will now be imported to your Premier Pro film editors media library

just make sure you number each image in sequence so when it loads in the timeline that it loads your images in the right order.  personal I think doubling 12 images to do 24 kfps is stretch. I usually render 30 images , one for each keyframe if I have a 10 seconds scene I will render all 300 keyframes as a PNG series which there is a setting for under the  Daz Studio render setting tab.( there is also a sub-setting for how many pngs to be rendered and you can set the animate2 timeline to match your settings to any kfps frame rate you like from there if you only want to do 24 images for 24kfps  . then when its done rendering everything. I imports my folder into AfterEffects or Premier Pro cs5 and then drag the folder to the timeline and the images load in the numbered order placed in the folder . this trick works for hit film as well.   once I have all the 30 keyfreame images loaded on the timeline if I want to shorten the time speed I start kicking out every other image to reduce it to 15 images and set the frame rate to 24kfps keyframes  using the running time settings found under the Premier Pro edit tab .  that has been my easiest way anyway .

you can take my advice for what is worth.   my experience with 24kfps is it sometimes makes for a more choppy(looks like its stuttering) animations compared to 30kfps, which are always more smoother. and much better quality,  you'll find for most film editors like Premier Pro it will only export  H.65 1080HD videos @ 29.9kfps Anyways. But if you only making 720HD for Youtube, than 24 kfps won't look so choppy. Because Youtube lags so bad anyway..lol   The one draw back to 30kfps is it does make for larger image folder files.

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Good luck