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Need help with animation

nickalamannickalaman Posts: 196
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I have a simple animation with a figure walking down a runway using aniblocks. I have one animated camera that follows the model with a tight shot and my main camera with a wide angle shot of the model walking towards it. Both cameras are animated and render fine on their own. I would like how ever to do camera switching in daz studio. example start camera one switch to camera 2 back to camera 1. Is there a way to do this in the timeline? can I choose what camera is active during rendering.

Thanks

Nick

Comments

  • PVGamesPVGames Posts: 69
    edited December 1969

    I don't think you can switch between cameras while rendering, you have to pick one or the other. I think, anyway...
    My guess would be that you would have to render it out twice, once in each camera, and then use video-editing software or something to arrange the snippets as you like.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,997
    edited December 1969

    With stuff like this I tend to go the 'dummy' route and do the render in pieces (rendering to image series!) so that frames, say, 1 to 120 will be via camera 1, frames 121 to 180 via camera 2, etc. This also lets me add in and change things (such as lights being turned on). The final animation would be generated by Image Magick (free tool).

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    :-)

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/camseq-for-ds-2-3

  • nickalamannickalaman Posts: 196
    edited December 1969

    That script is exactly what i was looking for.

    Thanks for your help

    Nick

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    You're welcome.

    {and posting more words so post will post}, sigh.

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