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Audiophyle

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Sadly Revit will only do 15 min time intervals, which makes a single day study zip through WAY too fast to even pretend to be useful. There is no way to make it useable without increasing the number of frames, which needs smaller time intervals.

I am designing a sundial in Revit as part of a landscape.

My goal is to take a single day from 4am to 10pm, and have a video showing the sundial in the dark (w/ artificial lights on) and let the sun rise & set across the site and sundial with it ending back in the dark bathed in artificial light again. The only way to make this work is to keep it to a single day, because multiple day studies just turn into a strobe effect thanks to the sun flying overhead too fast.

To do this I need far more frames than 1 every 15 minutes, if possible Id love to have one every minute for a very smooth & fluid shadow movement. I would settle for one every 5 minutes, which is what brings me to the purpose for this thread.

Is it possible to set up a sun study and export them into a folder as individual images instead of exporting the frames straight to video?

I would like to run one study from 4am to 10pm (15min interval), then another from 4:05am to 10:05pm, and another from 4:10am to 10:10pm, and effectively have 3 times the frames and thus a smoother more legible video. (Imovie can compile the images into a video once put in order)

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dgcad

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Sounds like you need 3D Studio MAX : ) REVIT really isn't a motion picture application. I have however been very successful in exporting Walkthroughs from REVIT with excellent smooth results by dialing up the frame rate.. It may take 24 hours to render / process a 20 second clip however.

How about using the services of Autodesk cloud processing ? I've heard good things.

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Audiophyle

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Yeah, Ive had pretty good walkthough results with Revit too. The problem is, where on a walkthrough you can just increase the number of frames, on a solar study you are stuck with the time intervals so the only way to get more frames is to study more days, and all that does is make back to back strobe light effects. lol

I have 3DsMax, but unfamiliar with it. I plan to start playing with 3DS more for this exact thing, but its a learning curve I dont have time for at the moment.

I have used the cloud rendering service and with pretty good results, but it never gave me the option of uploading a walk through or solar study. Might have to play with it some more.

I did however figure out how to export all still images from a solar study. It seems I just didnt go far enough through the process. Once you enter the export menu & setup all the frames you want, resolution, and view option, when it comes to the point to name the animation you can change the file output from .avi to .jpg and it will auto number each jpeg by adding a 00001, 00002, 00003, and so on to the end of the image name.

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Pavan

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While exporting under File Type you can select any other image format than .avi.

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Pavan

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Good that you figured it out before my reply...I delayed in giving reply.

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