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as you have founded out, during high quality rendered walk thrus with Revit requires hour upon hours of time. if you plan on during large volumes of such type renderings, then 3d max would be the one place to look.

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Our rendered walkthroughs / arounds took over 80 hours to do one minute videos to show client. We did not use 3dMax but did it in Revit. We later found a render service in CA I think could do the 1300 frames for about $225 US in about 15 min. using over 1000 processors. We never did get that far as the company almost folded in the past year.

 If you are serious about quality rendered walkthoughs then go with a service. The only draw back we found with this service was we had to assemble the images when they returned them to us via photo editing software.

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You can do it in Revit it's just going to take a long time, if you have a couple or more computers you can use, I suggest setting up the work through making sure it is what you want (use hidden lines to start with),

detach open the file on computer 1 and set the frames you want to render, break it into as many part as you have computers for:

computer 1; from frame 1 to 50

computer 2: 51 to 100... you get the point the reason for detaching is that it might take really long to render so you can still have the original file to work on while the other is rendering...

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So, I have a walkthrough set up in Revit 2009. I did a test render of the video, 100 frames, at draft quality. It took about 45 minutes (it's a really simple project). I would like to do a high quality rendered fly-around, walk-around. I've seen all the posts about rendering in 3DS Max. I suppose my real simple question is, how? I'm assuming I export from Revit in a FBX format. I'm waiting on a copy of Max, I haven't tried it yet. When I export, does it take with it the camera views, angles, and speeds? I do know it takes the materials, but what about decals and custom materials I've assigned?

I have a brand new, powerful computer. Intel i7 920 2.67Ghz processor, 12GB RAM, and a video card with 1726MB memory. I could just set it up and run it overnight, but I'm curious about Max for future, more intensive projects.

Attached is an aerial view of what I'm trying to render, and the decals that I'm concerned about.

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eldados

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yes, FBX will be the format you need, it will take your revit materials across but will only take one camera with the model.

Max uses a different method to create a fly through, you'll need to figure that one out  

but the render will look much better and will take less time as well!

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