Frames Per Second Problem

[Nick Keeble]

I think I'm going insane - can anyone help. I'm fairly new to Lightwave so this may seem a dumb thing to ask. I have an 800 frame scene that I want to render at 25 fps, giving me 32secs of animation. I have the camera properties set to D1 PAL, in the general options I have 25 fps set, and in the rendering options, in the Quicktime compression settings I have Sorenson Video set to 25fps also. And yet whenever I render the scene I end up with about 26 seconds. If I create a completely new scene and use all the same settings it's fine. What am I doing wrong? Anybody?

[mlinde]

There have been a number of issues reported from Europe about QT/Lightwave and 25fps. I'd suggest you output to an image sequence, then import that into QT Pro and save as an animation from there, to bypass this problem.

[Nick Keeble]

Thanks for the advice - I'll give that a go. I have also tried opening a new scene then loading items from the old scene - it seems to have worked so far but unfortunately that means I lose all my old camera settings and key-frames.

[Beamtracer]

Michael's suggestion to get Quicktime Pro is good advice.

Does the frame counter on your QT movie get up to 26 seconds, or are you timing it with a stop watch?

Are you using LW7.5 or LW7.5c?

Possibly you could import the camera motion files into the new scene so you don't lose them.

[toby]

"Possibly you could import the camera motion files into the new scene so you don't lose them."

He's correct, with the camera selected in your old scene, go to : File/Save/Save motion file, and put on the extension ".mot" and make a "motions" folder in you content directory for .mot files.

Then in your new scene, select the camera and go to : File/Load/Load Motion file. LW goes to your motions folder.

Would be nice if it came over with the scene tho.

p.s.
Always render to frames and you avoid more problems like this - or worse!

[Nick Keeble]

Thanks everyone for the excellent advice - seems to have done the trick! I'm feeling sane again!

PS. Beamtracer - I'm using LW 7.5c. The QT frame counter shows 26 secs - I get just under 27 if I time it with a stop watch.