Image sequence/ importing video

[Brian Jones]

try exporting the videos as separate image sequences and reimporting into the materials. That’s just a guess since I don’t know what the problem might be – it might even be related to maintenance issues – have you ever used Onyx?

[Mont Sherar]

Hello Brian and thank you for taking the time to try and help me.
Re. system issues, I have repaired permissions, trashed preferences, and even just ran Onyx as you hinted to. But none of this has any bearing on the issue.

Here are some better explanations.

If I start from scratch. Make a material. Texture/”load image” if it is any still image in any format it is applied to the material. But no matter the size, no matter the format, if it is a video clip, it comes in black and in fact will always display “texture error” as well if I try and render it out (with the video image). This is the same even if I put a .jpg and a quicktime movie in the same folder. The .jpg will be applied to my material but the video will display black and will not render. No matter the size or format.

I realize if I did the video as a sequence of stills, that might work but it must be possible to simply apply a perfectly good quicktime movie clip to a material as well.

The odd thing is, I have done this in the past with no problem but now this has reared its ugly head.

Any idea why no matter what video file is applied, C4d refuses to apply it to a material considering the details mentioned above?

Thanks again Brian for your time and effort in trying to help me :-)))

[Brian Jones]

there was a quicktime problem on the Mac (that has been fixed) in one of the versions. I never saw it myself but I heard about it I think Adam knows more than I (Support certainly would). I don’t remember the details of which version it was but are you on the latest version of 13?

Image Sequences should work for now though.