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CosmicBear
03-28-2003, 07:08 PM
is it possible to have the individual framenumbers displayed in the preview-movie or any other movie that's rendered?

i know it's not possible with r7, but maybe it has been added to r8?????

or is there a plugin/script/something for that???

it's kinda difficult to animate something, then watch the preview and then figure out in which frame something has to be changed...

thanx in advance! :)
JIII
03-28-2003, 07:33 PM
well if you have quicktime pro you can see it if you get movie info

other than that you can just use a good editor I.e final cut pro or avid to get your time code.
CosmicBear
03-28-2003, 07:53 PM
i do have quicktime pro but that's not what i'm looking for. i want the frame-numbers, not the timecode.

i know, that i can get the frame-numbers in after effects, etc. but that's a bit too much work, isn't it?

render movie (no matter what resolution or what quality) or save preview-movie, open in after effects, add timecode-filter, render movie again just to find out if you need to change the foot-position from frame 27 to 28 or if the hand is going through something at frame 56...

when rendering a movie it's not that big of a problem actually... i just use a quicktime-movie with a frame-counter that i prepared in AE and just put as a texture on a box. but when rendering a preview-movie in quick-shading the movie is not being played as a texture...

sometimes i miss animation:master... :rolleyes:
Srek
03-28-2003, 08:02 PM
Hi,
a basic framcounter is pretty easy. Just place a Text object (in a LoftNURB) as a child of the camera and feed it the frame number via Xpresso. With some more Xpresso knowledge you can build one that shows complete SMPTE information.

Regards
Srek
mikeh64
03-28-2003, 08:04 PM
- make a text object
- ad an expresso expression to it
- drag text object to expresso manager
- add a "text" input to the text object (in the expresso manager - blue square/object properties/"text")

- create a "time" node (new node/expresso/general/"time")
- create a "frame" output on the time node (red square/"frame")
- connect the "frame" output to the "text" input

move the frame scrubber around and behold
CosmicBear
03-28-2003, 09:20 PM
http://www.cosmicbear.de/icons/grouphug.gif thank you shrek and mikeh64!!!!! i will give it a try!!!
lllab
03-30-2003, 07:11 PM
thats good to know!!!

such things should be as simple examples in the manuals...

cheers

lllab
JIII
03-30-2003, 08:46 PM
If they gave simple examples for everything in the manual it would be 10,000 pages long.
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