milbogo opened this issue on Apr 11, 2005 ยท 8 posts
milbogo posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 1:29 AM
Hi,
I am new to Poser. What is the best way to place an animated model created in poser over video? I am not sure if poser has the feature, but it would be great if I could see the video on a timeline within poser, so I could position the characters according to the video background. Is this possible? If not, how do I do it? Do I need other software.
Kind regards,
Mil
maxxxmodelz posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 2:06 AM
You can import a AVI video as a background. Scrub through the timeline, and you can see the video move, and animate the characters accordingly.
Message edited on: 04/11/2005 02:07
Tools : 3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender
v2.74
System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB
GPU.
milbogo posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 2:28 AM
Thanks, I will give it a go. Is there a way to mask the figure over the video? For example, imagine I want the figure to appear from behind a door way, can I create a mask to do this - so I can make it look like it comes from the doorway. Kind regards, Mil
maxxxmodelz posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 2:45 AM
Do you mean creating a render for compositing into an image of a doorway? Is this also for animation? There's no way that I'm aware of in Poser, be it features or material tricks, that allows you to "occlude" certain portions of rendered objects in this way for compositing purposes. The way it's done in other apps is with special "matte" composite materials. You would basically insert a "mock up" of whatever object is in your background image into the scene, then apply a special matte material to it, which would render invisible, but also occlude objects behind it for seamless compositing. Poser simply doesn't have this. You can, however, make objects into "shadow catchers" for compositing shadows, if you have P5/P6.
Tools : 3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender
v2.74
System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB
GPU.
milbogo posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 4:23 AM
How do you import avi to background? Is this different to import avi. When I do import avi I cannot see the video. Thanks.
milbogo posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 4:31 AM
I just answered my own question - the first fram simply didn't show video. It is working now.
milbogo posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 4:39 AM
Another question if I may: I got my model to walk over imported avi file, but when I make movie, the background video is omitted - oh - so close - but so far. I can only see model and default poser background. How do I make movie with both? Cheers.
maxxxmodelz posted Mon, 11 April 2005 at 5:02 AM
If you render to a file format with alpha channel intact, then all you need to do is composite it with the original movie in post. It's better that way anyway. To answer your question, though... check to make sure "render over" is set to 'background picture' in your render settings. If it's set to 'background color', then that's what it will render.
Tools : 3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender
v2.74
System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB
GPU.