Video as a material

[Nolan Scott]

I presume the Frame-Rate in your Project-Setting
should be the same as your movie.

Cheers
Nolan

[Brian Jones]

Video as texture won’t play on an object but will play on a background object. I have heard you can break the video into a series of stills and that will play but I’ve tried and have had no success so if it’s possible I don’t know the trick. I think there is a plugin that will make it work (I do not know the name but it was mentioned here so perhaps a search of the Cow archived posts…)

[Greg Paterson]

Your presumption is correct.

[Greg Paterson]

Thanks Brian,

What actually is a “background object” as distinct from a “normal” object?

The plugin sounds good ….certainly better than marking points on my monitor with a felt pen.

Thanks
GReg

[Michael Duff]

if you have your video file as a quicktime movie or similar it should be easy. Although you should de-interlace any video footage first. C4D doesn’t have any options to interpret fields.

So in the color section of your material chose the quicktime movie as the texture. You should then have an animation option in the material editor. Here you can chose what frame you want to texture to start on, whether or not it should loop, or ping-pong.

[Brian Jones]

A Background object is a special object (Obects/Scene/Background) which is meant to be used a a sort of virtual backpane to put images (and movies) on that will always be behind whatever actual objects are in the scene. Not directly useful in for what you are talking about but it is the only way to get a movie to play frame for frame without a plugin (at least as far as I know).

[Greg Paterson]

Thanks for the beautifully graphic reply.
Very impressed and heart warming to see a frame rate of 25.
Exactly my setup except I have DV type 2 frames as my video and I set it to “exact frame” rather than “exact second”. Exact frame seemed at the time the logical choice as everything i am doing is keyed to frames and not time.
As is stated the problem is that as i step through the frames in the main C4D interface the movie clip stays on whatever frame is set at first frame.I only see the relevant video frame when I “render view”.

Why do you have your video in the colour channel as opposed to the luminance channel?

Nice and warm in Darwin!
GReg

[Greg Paterson]

Interesting ….thanks for that.
Something to fiddle with tonight.

Greg

[David Ormsby]

Brian
Actually, I did a project a couple of months ago where I mapped a movie file onto the some screens in a set. The movie played out as a camera moved through the room… The screens were regular objects.

[Brian Jones]

In the editor window or at render time? (or both?)