Rendering as an image series

kwannie

Hi All,

  I need some advice, I just tried rendering a single character with a bvh applied to an image series (in jpg and in png formats). I opened the series in Virtual Dub and saved as an AVI, and the rendered animation was very slow and sluggish in the AVI. When I rendered the same scene as just an AVI directly from DS the rendered animation played at full speed.  Is there some kind of setting that I need to apply in DS before saving as an image series to keep in from rendering slow, or is Virtual Dub the issue?

Thanks

Fishtales

It might be Virtual Dub, although I don't have it, but I render to image series and then make the movie in Vegas Pro which works. I render it as a .mp4 at PAL 25 frames per second, perhaps the frame setting in Virtual Dub is set for a slower frame rate.

Mattymanx

Not sure.  Virtual Dub has not been updated since 2013. 

kwannie

What would be the most popular app to create a vide with from an image series? I'm sur photo shop would do it, but PS is no longer stand alone I think. Isn't it in some kind of license or lease usage only now? Would Gimp work? Or, anything in a stand alone format.

marble

I use Blender. It has a very good Video Sequence Editor (VSE) whih will import the image series without a problem. I usually try to matche the frame rate in the DAZ Studio timeline to the Blender frame rate setting. There are tutorials on YouTube to walk you though it.

Paintbox

Kwannie, it plays slow probably because without tweaking anything virtualdub saves as an uncompressed AVI, which means it uses lots of data throughout. If you did specify a codec, the settings might be wrong and the player has trouble interpreting it. 

Fishtales

Does Microsoft photo and video editor, I think that is it I haven't looked in a while, do image sequence? Assuming you aren't on a Mac