kruse opened this issue on Mar 25, 2003 ยท 7 posts
EsnRedshirt posted Tue, 25 March 2003 at 10:00 AM
My longest project so far ran a bit over 2 minutes. I ended up splicing together three different .pz3 animation files (rather carefully, since I wanted it to appear like one camera shot with no cuts.) Unfortunately, there was a minor light shift (which I still can't explain). I would have done it all in one take, but Poser runs into problems when you exceed 999 frames- it's more of an interface problem, really. The animation palette will track the excess frames, but the pop-up animation bar in the Pose room only has room for 3 digits... makes things slightly difficult when you use both tools regularly. Actually, when I make movies now, I make them in DivX 5.0.2 format, with a 1000kps encoding rate- high enough so no detail is lost at 640x480, but small enough so that individual images don't fill my hard drive. I found a freeware editing program that can spice individual .avi's together, add sound, and works with DivX compression, but unfortunately, I can't recall its name right now. Best of luck with your movies! Animating in Poser is fun :)