Woah! First turntable animation... YIKES!

azonicbruce · January 30, 2011, 09:40:51 PM

Ok, so I decided I'd crank out my first turntable render. Set quality to good, resolution to 1920x1080, do a full 360deg spin, and # of frames to 360 (thinking I'd get a really smooth video with 1deg increments).

I've done about 10 frames so far, and each one is taking roughly an hour each...

So if my math is correct, it should be done in about... 360 hours!?

Any idea if this will be bad for my CPU, letting it run for almost 2 weeks at full bore?

Boy, this BETTER be good...

JeffM · January 30, 2011, 10:13:51 PM

You probably don't need the quality set to "good".

Tune the settings in the "quality" tab on a single image. Then, perhaps do a 5 frame turntable test to make sure everything looks good at each 20 degree increment of the rotation. Then kick off the full TT.

If you would like to post here or send to support@luxion.com a screenshot of the project and render settings I, and others here, can help.

Turntables do take some time, but your CPU should be fine as long as there is adequate cooling.

Chad Holton · January 31, 2011, 04:54:03 AM

I've rendered out for a week straight before with no heat issues, I did check every so often to make sure though.

Where's the video going to be seen - are you sure you need that high of a resolution?

Also, that will be a massive video if not compressed. Keep in mind after compression that the quality will go down a little to a lot, and you might be able to get away with the "fast" rendering setting option.

azonicbruce · February 03, 2011, 07:13:00 PM

I guess starting small is always a good option:

http://azonic3d.com/Temp/Forums/TSH-88-03-320x180.flv

I guess the point with trying to render in full HD is so that I only have to do it once and can downsize for anything that it might be distributed in down the road, but as has been mentioned, maybe just do enough for what is required right now (which isn't anything, they don't know I have this capability yet)

Btw, you can't really tell from the flash versions, but if you look and the H.264 versions below, you'll notice that you get a bit smoother video using the Frame Blending option.

http://azonic3d.com/Temp/Forums/TSH-88-03-320x180.mp4
http://azonic3d.com/Temp/Forums/TSH-88-03-320x180-FrameBlend.mp4

azonicbruce · February 03, 2011, 07:13:33 PM

I guess flash video embedding doesn't work?

Chad Holton · February 04, 2011, 04:35:05 AM

Sweet! I'd say that would look great on a large screen in HD.
A little flare would top it off..

azonicbruce · February 04, 2011, 09:36:28 AM

Quote from: cholton on February 04, 2011, 04:35:05 AM
Sweet! I'd say that would look great on a large screen in HD.
A little flare would top it off..

Exactly, which is why I want to render out as highest quality as possible so that after adding effects, compression, etc, it will still look good in glorious HD.

JeffM · February 04, 2011, 10:13:32 AM

You might also try doing this with the "use realtime mode" and try to find that right amount of time it takes to make the render look good. Test on a still image, and then do the turntable with that time set.

The realtime mode should smooth out global illumination artifacts better than the regular offline mode.

The frame blending makes a huge difference. There are also motion blur plugins for AE. Reelsmart motion blur is great: http://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/