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  • Imported videos turnes into black materials

    Posted by Idan Specktor on January 21, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Hello!

    I have tried to make a material of a video.
    I imported it into the Color-> texture.
    The problem is that the material becomes black.

    I have searched a solution and had found the Leawo Video Converter.
    I treid to used it but any video turnes to black in Cinema 4d material.
    I have tried some videos, and some converts for each but the entire videos turnes to black.

    I also tried to download codexs but it doesnt influence anything.

    What should I do?

    Thanks a lot!

    Idan Specktor replied 14 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Michael Szalapski

    January 23, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    Is it black when you render?

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  • Idan Specktor

    January 25, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    alwayz- when im rendering or not.
    its like the material doesnt load the file,
    but when im clicking on “animation” it opens the wmv file in the computer (so the path is ok).

  • Michael Szalapski

    January 25, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    I wouldn’t suggest using a WMV at all. Cinema 4D (and any other 3d program for that matter) prefer image sequences.

    Use the Adobe Media Encoder or your editing program (or After Effects, if you must) to render it out as an image sequence (in its own folder). Place that image sequence folder in your tex directory for your project. Also, make sure you have animate in preview checked, or you won’t be able to see it playing unless you render. A bit more info (with pictures) here: [link]

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

    No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

  • Idan Specktor

    February 18, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Thanks Michael Szalapski, u r my KING! It works!:)

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