Locally render video

[welbot]

I noticed that there's now an option to select "local renderer" under the video tab.

Yet despite having a simple turntable style animation setup in the animation workspace, clicking render here only produces a jpg, png or tiff. 

Can anyone explain either what I'm doing wrong, or why it's even an option if it doesn't work? 

I just want to render a nice 20 second long 1080p 360 degree rotation of my model, and I have the time/computing power to do it locally, yet it seems that the only way I can do it is in the cloud. I'm a hobby user with long term health issues, so I'm too broke to afford the cloud credits. I was super pleased to see the local renderer option, but it doesn't seem to work. 
I am able to publish an animation in the animation workspace, but obviously it looks like hot garbage compared to the proper render with HDR lighting. Please tell me it's possible?!!? 🙂

[welbot]

I noticed that there's now an option to select "local renderer" under the video tab.

Yet despite having a simple turntable style animation setup in the animation workspace, clicking render here only produces a jpg, png or tiff. 

Can anyone explain either what I'm doing wrong, or why it's even an option if it doesn't work? 

I just want to render a nice 20 second long 1080p 360 degree rotation of my model, and I have the time/computing power to do it locally, yet it seems that the only way I can do it is in the cloud. I'm a hobby user with long term health issues, so I'm too broke to afford the cloud credits. I was super pleased to see the local renderer option, but it doesn't seem to work. 
I am able to publish an animation in the animation workspace, but obviously it looks like hot garbage compared to the proper render with HDR lighting. Please tell me it's possible?!!? 🙂

[TrippyLighting]

I would almost believe hat's a UI snafu and it's not possible.

@jodom4 could you in=vestigate?

@welbot If you are interested in turntable rendering locally my suggestion would be to use Blender.

It might be daunting at first, but there is a wealth of tutorials available on youtube and the EVEE render engine utilizes the GPU and is several magnitudes faster than the CPU based local render engine in Fusion 360.

[TrippyLighting]

I would almost believe hat's a UI snafu and it's not possible.

@jodom4 could you in=vestigate?

@welbot If you are interested in turntable rendering locally my suggestion would be to use Blender.

It might be daunting at first, but there is a wealth of tutorials available on youtube and the EVEE render engine utilizes the GPU and is several magnitudes faster than the CPU based local render engine in Fusion 360.

[welbot]

I'm quite proficient in several different 3d packages, including 3dsmax and blender, but I already like the way the render looks in Fusion, and I can't port the materials over to the other packages I have, so I figured if I could just do a simple turntable render, I might as well. Keeps things nice and easy.
As I said, I don't care about how long it takes. I would just let it go while I do something else. I'm stuck at home doing nothing already, so hardly an incovenience 😂

It's by no means essential to what I'm doing either, but upon looking, and seeing the option was there, I figured why not?! Finding out it only throws up a still image is just confusing though, so hoping to find out if I did something wrong, or if it's still not possible. Would be nice if we could render out simple turntables locally though. I don't need to be wasting your server power for my hobby stuff. Would be great to be able to throw up a turntable to show off on social media though. Much nicer than a still image. 

[welbot]

I'm quite proficient in several different 3d packages, including 3dsmax and blender, but I already like the way the render looks in Fusion, and I can't port the materials over to the other packages I have, so I figured if I could just do a simple turntable render, I might as well. Keeps things nice and easy.
As I said, I don't care about how long it takes. I would just let it go while I do something else. I'm stuck at home doing nothing already, so hardly an incovenience 😂

It's by no means essential to what I'm doing either, but upon looking, and seeing the option was there, I figured why not?! Finding out it only throws up a still image is just confusing though, so hoping to find out if I did something wrong, or if it's still not possible. Would be nice if we could render out simple turntables locally though. I don't need to be wasting your server power for my hobby stuff. Would be great to be able to throw up a turntable to show off on social media though. Much nicer than a still image. 

[T-SquareXY]

Hello welbot

I am far from being a Fusion 360 Expert. I am in the same boat as you who has just asked myself the same questions you posed here. I see that this is an old thread which appears to not have been solved, so I thought I would add my 2-cents, for what it’s worth.

I just spent an entire day researching this topic and sadly found no information directly addressing the Video Tab; exactly what it does or how to use it. But, near as I can tell, the Video Tab is used to create rendered video animations of Motion Studies. You must have at least 1 Motion Study setup in the Design Workspace before the Video Tab can do what it is supposed to do, create a Play button in the rendered image preview window. You then use this Play button to render a video animation of the Motion Study in the cloud, which obviously requires Cloud Credits. And I don’t think there is a way to create a Turntable style video rendering in Fusion 360 without using Cloud Credits. 

I currently have no designs with Motion Studies so, I have not been able to confirm this yet. But this How to Render an Animation in Fusion 360 : 6 Steps - Instructables webpage describes the procedures. This webpage, however, is not very well written but in combination with this How to render a motion study in Fusion 360 | Fusion 360 | Autodesk Knowledge Network webpage I was able to put the pieces together. I also found a few under 3-minute YouTube videos which attempt to demonstrate this procedure.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

T-SquareXY

[T-SquareXY]

Hello welbot

I am far from being a Fusion 360 Expert. I am in the same boat as you who has just asked myself the same questions you posed here. I see that this is an old thread which appears to not have been solved, so I thought I would add my 2-cents, for what it’s worth.

I just spent an entire day researching this topic and sadly found no information directly addressing the Video Tab; exactly what it does or how to use it. But, near as I can tell, the Video Tab is used to create rendered video animations of Motion Studies. You must have at least 1 Motion Study setup in the Design Workspace before the Video Tab can do what it is supposed to do, create a Play button in the rendered image preview window. You then use this Play button to render a video animation of the Motion Study in the cloud, which obviously requires Cloud Credits. And I don’t think there is a way to create a Turntable style video rendering in Fusion 360 without using Cloud Credits. 

I currently have no designs with Motion Studies so, I have not been able to confirm this yet. But this How to Render an Animation in Fusion 360 : 6 Steps - Instructables webpage describes the procedures. This webpage, however, is not very well written but in combination with this How to render a motion study in Fusion 360 | Fusion 360 | Autodesk Knowledge Network webpage I was able to put the pieces together. I also found a few under 3-minute YouTube videos which attempt to demonstrate this procedure.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

T-SquareXY