AVI image map help needed

[juzliqan]

Hi,

I have a strange situation that is puzzling me. I have a simple cube object, and have used an image map to colour the surface of it with a 25fps AVI file.

Now in Layout I have set the frame rate (General settings tab) to 25, and then imported the object.

But when I step through rendering single frames, some frames get duplicated:
I move to frame 28, and frame 28 renders
Moving to frame 29, but frame _28_ renders!
But moving to frame 30, frame 30 renders.

The same is true for frames 57, 58, 59, and others.

What is causing this? The AVI file plays fine in my NLE, with all frames being different. Do I need to set frame rate elsewhere in Layout?

Regards,

Julian

[Mylenium]

Check your framerate, fields, In and Out in Image editor. if that fails, create an image sequence from your file. This should eliminate the problems.

Mylenium

[juzliqan]

Creating an image sequence fixed it.

Julian

[madrenderman]

you can load quicktime or avi, but is not a best solution.
convert avi in images sequence, and load it, it's more fast, simple, less memory requirement, and more fast rendering (if you use avi lw spend some task to decompress and build delta frame of avi, if you use uncompressed avi, you waste a bunch of ram).

[juzliqan]

The problem I had was that I didn't realise LW could load an image sequence (it's a little hidden in my version, 6.5), so I was converting all my image sequences to AVIs first!
Now I have found out how to do the real thing, I'll avoid that conversion!

Regards,

Julian

:)