A:M Films Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 The second part of a two part series guiding you through the process of building a very simple animation rig from scratch. Added by: HomeSlice Tags: rigging Date: 2010-07-20 View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsjustme Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Great job, Holmes! I'm not sure if you mentioned to rig the left arm, but that is pretty obvious. Nice starter rig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Terrific! Chock full of good information presented in a clear, easy to follow way with excellent explanations as to WHY things are done the way they are. Gives a very good foundation for building onto. Bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Thanks guys The audio starts to drift quite a bit after around the 30 minute mark, and I was hoping it was still intelligible after that point. So I did this to test out Hypercam2, which is now free, and doesn't embed a "Made with Hypercam" image in the video. (Hypercam 3 still costs money) I captured one clip at 10fps and another at 5fps. The audio syncs better at 10fps and I did not see much, if any, increase in file size. For presentations under 30minutes in length, I think Hypercam 2 is a great choice. I also tested various video codecs, since Hypercam compresses the video in real time. (Although you can't recompress the audio in Hypercam, you can set mono/stereo, KHz and bit rate. I used mono, 16KHz, 92Kb/sec) By far, the best video quality/compression ratio came from x264, which is ever so slightly different from Apple's h264. http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html This codec gave MUCH smaller file sizes than Apple's h264 or Xvid or anything else I tried, while maintaining excellent quality. It has a dazzling array of configuration options, but I just left them all at the defaults except I set Multithreading to the number of cores in my cpu. Hypercam recognized the codec without a problem. In order to get Quicktime to play the movies however, I had to open them in SUPER and export to mov format, which took about 5min for a 95MB video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Great tutorial, Holmes! The Hypercam 2 information is excellent too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Great work holmes, I only watched about the first 20 minutes but will watch the rest later. Great info, very thorough and well explained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 This was a very nice tutorial. Thank you very much for making it. Edit: By the way, the audio becomes out of sync with the video. It's really quite a shame because it is a great tutorial with important information. However the lag between the audio and video gets so confusing. Holmes: Is there a simple way to fix it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Hey Holmes, Sorry to ask again, but any news on syncing up the audio on this fine tutorial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Sorry to ask again, but any news on syncing up the audio on this fine tutorial? I might try to futz with it one day, but at the moment, I'm sorry to say it isn't a priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I might try to futz with it one day, but at the moment, I'm sorry to say it isn't a priority. Thanks for the reply Holmes. I understand. I hope that the things that are keeping you busy are Animation Master related! I look forward to seeing more of your work and any other tutorials you may make in the future. Hmmm. I just wondered. What if one just time stretched the audio in Premiere or After Effects to help make it match? If you want me to do it for you, I could give it a shot if you are too busy and want to send me the movie file. Thanks again for the great tutorial on rigging. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 You don't have to be so darn nice about it animas3D. OK, I think I got it fixed. I'm re-encoding it now. Will try to upload the fixed version either tomorrow or Wed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 OK man, I fixed the audio and uploaded a new version. 4421218a51b1e1f1b0ba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animas3D Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Hooray! Thanks, Holmes. That was very kind of you. Time to pour myself a cup of tea and watch the new and improved synced tutorial! Thanks a million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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