Who is creating videos from the Inventor Animations? What software are you using

[Anonymous]

I am the only designer in a small company installing swinging bells in church steeples. One of the functions my predecessor performed was creating customer specific videos for customers, showing their situation, my company's addition.  These videos included text, music, sound as well as the animation. Pretty much a mini movie for the customer to enjoy, share and use to raise funds. The previous designer was using Windows Moviemaker. Basically taking screen captures of the animation and splicing things together with text and sound. It was an effective method, but one I'm not familiar with. I am looking to take up the reigns on this task, but wanted to see if there was anybody else doing this sort of thing. I'm not tied to Windows Moviemaker, it's just a free software package. I can use it,  or not use it as I'm not familiar with it any way. If there is something better to use, I can just as easily train myself on it.

Any thoughts?

[swalton]

Last time I did something like that, I used Windows Moviemaker.  Is it still available?

I used Inventor Studio to build my animations, rendered them to individual jpgs, and used WMM to stitch everything together.  That way, I could render each "shot" of the animation as a separate unit.  When the client added additional parts/components or new shots, I just had to render that 5-30 seconds of the animation, not the entire 300 seconds (5-10 min rendering time per frame, 24 frames/second adds up). I also used WMM to define the transitions between shots.

I made a spreadsheet to track which group of frames went to each shot so I could import them into WMM in the correct order.

[JDMather]

I think that Windows MovieMaker has been discontinued.

Camtasia Studio

or

Adobe Premiere

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

If I need to go the extra mile (like want you're indicating), I use Tech Smith Camtasia Studio (but that's what I have as a software offering in my company).   However I've had some issues with the output from Inventor Studio here and there and getting it into  Camtasia Studio.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies.....

MovieMaker is no longer being supported. But you can still get copies of the software.....

[philip1009]

The best replacement to use would be 3DS Max as it supports import of CAD files and has the tools for rendering and animations, it just depends on if you have access through a collection or suite, and it can take some time to learn the software.

[brad]

I've been using VSDC  video editor. Free version, and a pro version for $20.

The free version far exceeds what Windows movie maker can do.

Lots of ability to add pictures, video, text, sounds, and tweak everything to your heart's content.

There is a bit of a learning curve, but if you were proficient at Movie Maker, you'll get up to speed in VSDC in a few hours or less.

[Cris-Ideas]

Hi,

I use Adobe Premiere Elements.

Quite simple and cheep.

Cris.