Howto output Animation

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Hi,

I've never used the animation editor and I'm looking into it the last week. It might be a stupid question, but I've seriously looked in all menu's in the Animation screen and tried all buttons. I've been digging through the forum and nobody is asking it, so it must be something obvious I'm missing.

I know how to add clips and how to pan/tilt the shot to create a nice animation. Works better with more control than what I did a view years ago, but ..... I really cannot find the output button. How can I output the animation ? Is it in video format or is it a sequence that controls the Virtual Tour ? There is nu button that tells me where to output it !?

I followed the tutorial about the animation, but it only tels me how to make the animation and not how to create the output.

Rgerads,

Arjan
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Hi Arjan,
Once you have created the animation you then can use it in a couple of ways.
Firstly as an Auto Tour, so a produced auto rotate so to speak.

Of you can export an MP4 video.
For this you need FFMpeg installed.
If you don't have this installed go to Pano2VR Settings/Preferences and select the tab FFMpeg (Red).
Then click the link (Green) to open the document you need to download for your OS.

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Save it to your computer, using the Choose button locate the file on your computer so Pano2VR can use it.
Once done you can use the Green + button to add an Animation output.
You should see you can create an MP4.
Best settings is 60 FPS, Quality High and use a 16:9 ration window size.
Note FFMpeg Lossless is a bit odd and only shows in some players hence why I say use High which shows everywhere that supports MP4.
Takes a while to export at 60 FPS but its one of those tasks you can just walk away and let Pano2VR get on with it.
I also recommend the option to Delete frame files after creation.
Which leads me to say you need a bit of free hard drive space as you will be generating lots of TIFF images.

If 60 FPS is a bit over kill then try 30, but I use 60 for all my published videos.
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Hi Hopki,

Thanks for your reply, I understand the video output now, it is more intergrated in the software than I thought.
But you are not mentioning how to output the "autorotate" option.
Hopki wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:14 pm Once you have created the animation you then can use it in a couple of ways.
Firstly as an Auto Tour, so a produced auto rotate so to speak.
Is this a skin button (like the autorotate button) with some extra options to go through the animation sequence ?
That would be great if that is possible!

To give you some background, my customer wants a sort of autotour/animation to show on a fair on a large screen, but with the possibility to stop it and take over control to show something else.

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Hi Arjan,
Open Pano2VR and under the HTML5 output you will see the TAB "Auto Rotate & Animation".
Simply select Animation, you can leave everything else deselected.

When you click the auto rotate button it moves the pano to the start position of the animation for the node your in and starts to play.
You can interact with it at any point. After the delay timer again it will move to the start position for the node your in and start again.

This uses the action Start, Stop and Toggle Auto rotate.
There is also an action Start Animation, this should not be used in this instance.

So whats it for?
If under the "Auto Rotate & Animation" tab you do not select Animation then the above actions will start and stop the Auto Rotate, just spinning the pano.
Then the Start Animation action will start the animation. But if you then interact with the panoramas after the time out it returns back to Auto Rotate not the animation.

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That was exactly where I was looking for ! Thank you very much !!

Regards,

Arjan
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Good morning,

I can not find the dmg file of ffmep for mc
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Hi,
Here is a link, http://ffmpeg.org/download.html
Then select for which platform you have.

In fact I have tested this build which works for me: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-3.4.2.dmg



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how to install it?
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Hi,
Please see documents: https://ggnome.com/wiki/FFmpeg
The key point is Pano2VR => Settings/Preferences => FFMpeg
But is covered in the docs.
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with this information i can not to install.

exist more guide
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Its not an install package.

Mine was a .zip file.

Download your .zip and place in new folder
UNZIP it and locate the \bin\ folder containing ffmpeg. You will need to know the full path to this ffmpeg.exe

Now In pano2vr

click
FILE
Settings
TAB for ffmpeg...
then [CHOOSE]
and browse to your new unzipped folder /bin/ and select the .exe

suggest restart Pano2vr and verify the path location to ->> ffmpeg.exe
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i have mc
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Same process. Mac or PC
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I can not install it.

ffmpeg , it is not executable from pano2vr
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Hi,
I don't know why you are having so many problems but to help I have uploaded the file I am using that works on my Mac.
Download from here LINK
Once downloaded and unzipped move to your applications folder.
Then in Pano2VR Preferences => FFMpeg: /Applications/ffmpeg
This should get you going.
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