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Spinncycle
06-27-2005, 05:42 AM
Hi folks

I have a newbie question. I just batch rendered a Maya animation and have about 300 frame sequence of .tga files that I want to compile together to create a fluid animation video. Problem is I'm new to animation and premiere, so I'm confused on how i'm supposed to compile all those Tga files in premiere so that when i render it, it comes out smooth?

I did a test by dragging all the tga files to my time slider, then I exported the project as a movie. The problem is when I watch it it comes out as each tga image is on screen for a couple seconds before it moves onto the next frame. make sense? basically I want it to be a fluid animation like i would batch rendering a AVI..

I'd appreciate if anyone could give me tips on how to do this. I tried before just to Batch render the animation as a Avi instead of tga's, but the video came out sorta choppy like it was lagging?

Thx

riverwide
06-28-2005, 07:31 PM
Hi

Try check this thing first before you import you .tga sequence in Premiere

In premiere, go to menu bar>edit>preference ( I'm not quite sure where the " preference" is exactly :shrug:
then when you get in the preference window look for " still image " option and change the value for display still image from 15 frames ( or whatever ) to 2 frames or even 1 frame ( I personally would go for 2 frames)

click OK
and now you can import your .tga sequence into your project, drag it into the timeline and hit spacebar once to preview how smooth it is in the composite monitor ( the upper right window ) before waste your time waiting for render all the clip

:thumbsup:

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