[wilders]

Ever wanted to see your own theater name come up at the start of your film, instead of 20th century fox, your own personalised message???

Not sure if you guys have seen this before, but I've followed the tutorial at the following thread :

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=715166

Make sure you download Blender 2.37a, not the newest version, should take half an hour or so to do the logo, plus about 10hrs to render the actual intro. Add the sound and hey presto!.....

Check the attached image, to see it moving with the spotlights and swooping camera is quite something!

Follow that with the pearl and Dean intro (the old one) and ooooh yeah......


*** I've put some simple steps to follow on page 2 if you got problems - READ THEM BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!!**

[wilders]

If you want to see mine in action, go here and click the wilson fanfare (it's 21 meg but takes a second or two if on broadband).... :

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dean.wilson1/


And the pearl & Dean intro is there also at

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dean.wi...dean/VIDEO_TS/

[Gary Lightfoot]

I had one done too, and modified it so that it faded out at the end (and added the 5.1 Fox fanfare). The first time I used it on the pj I used it as the intro to the movie we were going to watch (on the htpc) so it all blended seemlessly together. Reaper certainly has made a great feature available and is worth a donation IMHO.

Gary

[waf-tastic]

I have one too - just printed a still of it to frame and hang in the entrance to my HC. There's a thread started recently which walks you through creating your own including putting in your own text here. Not tried it myself yet, but would give you a bit more flexibility and lessen the load on Reaper.

[bsuttie]

Originally Posted by wilders

If you want to see mine in action, go here and click the wilson fanfare (it's 21 meg but takes a second or two if on broadband).... :

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dean.wilson1/

Wilders, great find! Did you have to change any render settings? I had a go last night and left it rendering, but when I viewed it this morning I have a lot of flickering going on in certain areas of the frame. Yours is so much cleaner.

I should mention that I couldn't get it to work at all with 2.37a, and had to download blender 2.42 (as indicated in the original instructions.

regards

Brian

[dobbin]

Yes I saw reaper's post a while back and created my own.
Thanks for the Pearl and Dean clip though. I've been thinking about using that for a while now.

[waf-tastic]

Originally Posted by bsuttie

Wilders, great find! Did you have to change any render settings? I had a go last night and left it rendering, but when I viewed it this morning I have a lot of flickering going on in certain areas of the frame. Yours is so much cleaner.

I should mention that I couldn't get it to work at all with 2.37a, and had to download blender 2.42 (as indicated in the original instructions.

regards

Brian

Apparently there have been problems with the original (reaper) blender files and the 2.42 version and flickering. I used the 2.37a version and it worked fine. Have you tried the instructions from the new thread I posted below? Thre seem to be quite a few people who have got it to work.

[amills2005smart]

This might sound really thick but im assuming this will only work when using a pc to play your movies.

[wilders]

The only settings I changed was set it to NTSC, AVI RAW then hit animate, thats it!

I too got flickering with the 2.42, only worked well with the 2.37a version of blender.

Suggest you try downloading blender again 2.37a for windows, both versions should work, but as you said, 2.37a is the only one without the flickering shading. What wouldnt work?

Theres another thread by reaper where there is also a lot of help :

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...7&page=1&pp=30

but blazer's tutorial is a good one, easy to follow, link in my 1st post.


Also, you can burn this as a dvd, but htpc is best so you can use say theatertek to play the p&d into, then your fox one, then your dvd, all seemlessly.....

[bsuttie]

OK

Having read the original thread a bit more thoroughly it seems there are problems with blender and AVI cards, so I've now tried it on a different PC with an nVidia card and it's fine, and so much faster.

thanks all

Brian

[bsuttie]

Originally Posted by amills2005smart

This might sound really thick but im assuming this will only work when using a pc to play your movies.

Hi, no you could stick it onto a DVD, although you'll then have to switch discs (unless you have a second DVD player). I'm planning to use it on the front of a DVD I'm editing at the moment, so I'll just add it as an extra chapter, or as a first play.

regards

Brian

[wilders]

Also, when finished rendering, to add the fox fanfare music, I used ulead, simple to add the fox music and also fade out at the end...

By the way, remember (like I forgot to twice) to set AVI RAW when rendering or you end up with 600 stills!!!!

[bsuttie]

Originally Posted by wilders

Also, when finished rendering, to add the fox fanfare music, I used ulead, simple to add the fox music and also fade out at the end...

By the way, remember (like I forgot to twice) to set AVI RAW when rendering or you end up with 600 stills!!!!

Sequential stills however have the big advantage that you can start / stop renders or render selected ranges as you wish. You can even distribute rendering across a number of workstations.

So it's not as daft as it sounds

regards

Brian

[amills2005smart]

Ah right i see, sounds very impressive guys, only got one dvd player at the mo and no recorder so cant add them as chapter either

[bsuttie]

OK for anyone else having problems with this here's my findings.

Originally tried V2.37a
Couldn't load blend file - "Invalid Read Error"

Changed to V2.42a
Opened fine, edited fine but gave flickering on render.

Only way I could get it to work was save the edited file from V2.42a, then re-install V2.37a and open and render from there. That result was perfect.

regards

Brian

[wilders]

Glad you got it sorted......

[putbinoot]

Originally Posted by wilders

Ever wanted to see your own theater name come up at the start of your film, instead of 20th century fox, your own personalised message???

Not sure if you guys have seen this before, but I've followed the tutorial at the following thread :

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=715166

Make sure you download Blender 2.37a, not the newest version, should take half an hour or so to do the logo, plus about 10hrs to render the actual intro. Add the sound and hey presto!.....

Check the attached image, to see it moving with the spotlights and swooping camera is quite something!

Follow that with the pearl and Dean intro (the old one) and ooooh yeah......

wILDERS, I am having trouble with this, are these the steps u followed.
1 render fox logo with your editing in 2.42a and save as jpeg or is it avi jpeg.
2 uninstall 2.42a and install 2.37a.
3 open rendered jpeg then set to avi raw then hit animate..

when i try this, the file will not open in 2.37a for some reason.

Any ideas where i am going wrong.

[wilders]

OK, I have put my blend file on my webspace which you can download and then edit the text with blender 2.37a

Steps are :

Install 2.37a then open my file (below) - dont bother installing 2.42.

Once in blender, right click the first line of text, tab to go to edit mode, change the text, then tab to finish editing the first line, then edit the other 2 lines of text. Should take about 2 minutes.

Once your happy with the text, make sure you hit say NTSC then hit AVI RAW, then hit animate, then wait 20 hours!


Your AVI file will be located in c:/render


Dont use 2.42 or you get flickering shading and it looks duff...

Access the file at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dean.wilson1/

[putbinoot]

CHEERS WILDERS
doing a very small one first to see if it comes out. what is it that you have done to your file that makes it work or is it that you managed to open the 2.4 file in 2.3 and therefor it will work in anybodys 2.3 now.

holy crap, made one, played it and it looked ok. But how do you stop it playing and how do you save it. Is it F2 save as or like the jped F3 save image.

ps i.ve lost it bugger.

[putbinoot]

made a small version but still unable to save it. Once it's finished what do i do. Hitting F3 i get ERROR select an image type in display buttons(f10).

[Miniholic]

I've done one of these myself after finding the thread on AVS. Having trouble with the flickering shadows though, so will have to give V2.37a a try when I get chance.

Anyway, this is mine...

[putbinoot]

Originally Posted by Miniholic

I've done one of these myself after finding the thread on AVS. Having trouble with the flickering shadows though, so will have to give V2.37a a try when I get chance.

Anyway, this is mine...

how do you save the animation

[Miniholic]

I just followed the instructions in Blazers tutorial in AVS. Did the render, then hit F3 and saved the file. I'm afraid I can't remember what the options were off hand. Will post back if I remeber what I did.

[wilders]

You hit ANIMATE and it will automaticaly save it in c:/render

The avi will be big and nearly unplayable as is, you then need to use ulead movie maker or something to add the music and create a dvd.

[putbinoot]

ok cheers, now rendering at 1080x720 maybe finished in a few days,lol. will more than 512mb ram help or is it purley cpu power that makes the difference.

[wilders]

i got 1 meg, my lads pc has 2meg and his is noticeably quicker, so more ram = good

[putbinoot]

12hrs rendering and only up to frame 200. O'well hope it works.
rendering at 1080x720

[wilders]

I didnt render mine that high, I used the NTSC pre set resolution.
Only another 24 hrs to go then!!!!

[IronGiant]

I'm following Wilders latest instructions and using his file and all seems to be well How many frames are there? I'm on frame 88 at the moment...
Edit: I started about 3hrs ago :-)
Dave

[wilders]

600