Creating a Video from Image Sequences

[PhilBo]

The built in animation support in Octane Render now allows for image sequences to be generated in Turntable and Sun / Sky animations. But once you get the image sequences, it is desirable to turn them into an animation.

If you use a Mac (or have Quicktime Professional) you can edit an image sequence into a video. While this tutorial is meant for Maya, it works with any image sequence: http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/maya/

On Windows, you can use the free tool VirtualDub to perform the task (as described here http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=34)
There is a good 3-D coat tutorial here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOkOsi0lVfM) that shows how to accomplish this.

You alternately use Blender for this task as well. And since Blender works on all OS's, it can be a powerful way to create the animation. Here's a tutorial that steps through the procedure in Blender: http://blog.jesterartsillustrations.com ... png-files/

Here's the page with the official documentation from the Blender WIKI
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:M ... ncer/Usage

I hope this helps everyone create great animations from those Octane Render Image sequences.

Phil

[cgbeige]

Another option for those on older versions of OS X who don't want to pay for Quicktime Pro is Graphic Converter.