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How to combine scenes into single animation & export

hooman.baghi — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:45:40 GMT

in a Naviswork simulate, several scenes have been created ( moving objects i.e. columns, beams, bracings, etc. ) in Animator. query is :

How can these 5 scenes be combined into a single animation to export *.avi ?
How to make them each appear in sequence, and then, run the scenes one-by-one, in the final combined animation ? (like emerging , and then moving object in PowerPoint)
How to edit that final combined single animation file, i.e. I needed to add a temporary structure , crane etc. later, or even change the number of columns etc. , I hope I don't have to repeat the process from the scratch again.

thanks,

Re: How to combine scenes into single animation & export

dgorsman — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:34:32 GMT

In general, don't try to do everything all in one go. Break it up into logical chunks that you can work with independently. That way you can mix and match the order, or shorten sequences, and other tasks later on without needing to render again.

Once those are ready, render to frames (PNG is best). Then you can post-process them with one of the various editors; I use Blender, but there's others like Davinci Resolve and Adobe products. Edit, add overlays and audio, and everything else you need to create a polished look. The last thing you should be doing is putting them into a video container file e.g. AVI.

Re: How to combine scenes into single animation & export

Patrick_Aps_9121 — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:24:53 GMT

To combine the AVI you created by Navisworks, you need video edtiting software. This cannot be done with Navisworks.

So in Navisworks, create the Animation per scene. Export an AVI per scene. In future, when the model changes you need to re-export the Animation.

Re: How to combine scenes into single animation & export

hooman.baghi — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:08:34 GMT

thanks for your reply

Re: How to combine scenes into single animation & export

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:40:03 GMT

A video joiner such as Joyoshare Video Joiner has the ability to combine scenes into a single one. I have used it to combine my multiple video clips together into a whole new one. Importantly, it supports nearly all multimedia formats, including your mentioned AVI.

✔️No quality loss and really with fast combination speed.

Re: How to combine scenes into single animation & export

Mohamed-Nassar — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:19:12 GMT

for sure you can export all your View points and Import all in one animation scene, for the crane you can download family of crane and control it with scripter