Inventor Studio render animation useless.

[ColinReeve]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have to say that I am tired of Inventer studio.

I've read the help, I can do animations, on all the fancy bits with cameras, constraint animation and fades. I can play my video on the animation timeline, and as far as I am concerned it plays well enough on the screen to show clients what their product is going to do for demo purpose.

That is not my complaint. My complaint is purely, hit the render animation, select a bunch of options, the computer spends all night saving a video file. In the morning the video file is 6kB in size, and the animation is worthy of the rubbish bin. How can the computer be kept busy all night on a 6kB file?????

It just doesn't seem to matter what I select the video output is just shocking. Most times Windows media will not play it, but only brings up the first frame and then the time bar just increases with no change in image. VLC manages to get more out of it.

So how is it that the rendering engine can be so bad???? I just want the video to look like it does on screen in the preview. I have wasted so much time inside the render animation dialog that I have given up on it. I now use a third party screen capture program, and I set the animation rolling, and hit record to capture the screen.

It does all manner of stange things, I have an aluminium part as set in the materials, and colour coded anodized black. It looks black on the screen and preview animation. Hit render and select whatever you like, and it renders in like a piece of cork in texture, and I can't find anything on why it does that either. See attached image.

I'm sorry to say, I just don't seem to find the settings to make this useful. 

If you want to fix something for the next version, get the render animation working so that some semblance of defaults are there so I can render an animation without fail. Maybe its just the help needs to be written so that its a slap in the face as to which options to use, as I have no idea what gaussian/box etc refer to....and it seems neither does the help??? 

I guess that's it, does anybody have a bunch of default settings that work, as I have never produced a video file from the render animation that I would hand to a customer.

Very frustrated.

Colin

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi,

Can you let us know which version of Inventor are you using and the current service pack level. Also if possible, can you share a sample data for us to test the performance problem that you faced. I will be more than happy to help you here.

[ColinReeve]

Inventor veersion is Build 138, Release 2016 RTM Date Fri 02/27/15.

As for service packs, I don't think any were released this year? I'm on subscription so it should all be the latest stuff.

By sample data, do you mean the IAM file that I was doing an animation on? I have plenty we can use, as it really doesn't make a difference which IAM I use.

Or by sample data do you mean a final video file.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi,

Thanks for the update. You may want to explore the SP1 or R2 release and see whether it helps.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/downloads/caas/downloads/content/inventor-2...

If possible, can you send me a simple model where your render output is terrible. I can investigate on that. Appreciate your inputs.

[ColinReeve]

Vinod,

I have download and applied the updates. I will try render another video tonight after work, and send upload the file.

I do have 2 online videos here;

https://plus.google.com/+Specialistoffshore/videos

These each took my machine 6 hours to do. These took around 3 days to get a good enough render from the settings. This is also the previous 2014 version of Inventor. Also the upload to google+ fixed the video freezing on the first frame.

Anyway I will get a video done tonight now the updates are done. Funny thing is I have not ever received any sort of email from Autodesk stating SP's were available, is this not something they do? I'm a little dissappointed with this too. I see there was R3 as well.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi Colin,

I tried to watch the videos there. I could see a lot of them but couldn't see the one you specifically mentioned. below is what I could see. Can you highlight which one to watch out for.

Also let us know whether you were able to test with all updates installed. I will check with the business team whether your email notifications have been turned off or not. Usually any new release will be notified to the customer. I would recommend you to install application manager on your machine as it can provide constant alerts on any new updates and will help keep you up-todate as well.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-Application-Man...