Inventor Animation

[Anonymous]

Hello.  I was wondering if there is a way to make an Inventor animation that is longer than 30 seconds?  Thanks for any help.

[mdavis22569]

under animation options ....

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hello.  I was wondering if there is a way to make an Inventor animation that is longer than 30 seconds?  Thanks for any help.

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I recommend that you never do this as you are likely to eat up all of your RAM.

A better solution - make several animations and then stitch them together using free Microsoft Movie Maker.

There is nothing more frustrating than having an animation rendering for several hours only to find that the computer ran out of RAM on the last slide.

[dgorsman]

Or Blender, which is also free.  A bit more complex but has a number of useful tools for compositing, transitions, and so on.

[swalton]

The last time I did this, I rendered out each frame as a seperate .jpg and stitched them together with Windows Movie Maker.  Its been a few years, but I think I did it that way so I had better control of the movie codec.  I also was able to add transitions and text to the animation. 

You can use this as a crude render farm too.  Render different segments of the animation on different workstations.  Combine them together after everything is done.

Another advantage: If you change a portion of the animation sequence, you only have to render the changed segment, not the whole animation.

[JDMather]

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@swalton wrote:

... I rendered out each frame as a separate .jpg ....

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I thought I would point out for others coming across this thread that Inventor can be set to automatically create each individual slide file (or you can leave it on the default to create the video).