Chris Shelton
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Yes, this totally did the trick and resolved it entirely. It’s nice to see that I do have this level of control over the video textures. It’s funny how this hasn’t ever come up before for anyone – I couldn’t resolve this on google or in the help screens at all. Thanks for your help.
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No, it’s not the RAM. There’s one more aspect to this and I realized what it was when I started playing with the length of the clips. It’s the fact that they are being shown in sequence, one after another. All three are not on the screen at the same time. First clip #1 plays, then there is a delay and then clip #2 is on screen and there is a short delay and then clip #3 displays. These are all within a few seconds of each other, but I think what’s happening is that each object exists starting at the very beginning of the animation and the video clip starts playing at the very beginning of the animation. So by the time clip #3 is visible, the video clip has already played out and that is why I’d get a still image of the last frame of the video.
I’m sure this is the problem. One just assumes that these things will start when they actually appear on screen, but that isn’t a correct assumption since the texture exists starting at 0:00. What I need to know now is how do I delay the video clip texture from starting until it actually appears on the screen? I’ve been looking but haven’t been able to find a key frame that makes sense. Any suggestions?
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Ok this is very strange now.
After four tries, I found a video clip that would animate on this third plane object as a texture. But I needed to trim a few seconds off the beginning of the clip so it would be at the right place for display. It is an .mov file 1280 x 720 just like the other clips that are working.
Just for data, working clip #1 is 11 seconds, working clip #2 is 8 seconds and working clip #3 was 9 seconds until I trimmed it down to 7 seconds by taking out its first two seconds. I did the trimming with QuickPlayer and saved it in the exact same format it started in. After trimming working clip #3, it no longer works. It will only display a static image. This is beyond frustrating. Every other variable or setting I can find is the same between these clips. What is going on?
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Yeah, I did that too with a totally from-scratch material. No change. I suspect there is something wrong with the video clips since I can change the video material to one of the other videos from the material/textures that do work, and then it will run them. But I can’t see what the problem is since the video clips are all the same type and from the same sources.
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Thanks Brian. Yes, I did do that. It tried it again just now and nothing changed. When I do a Make Preview render, it remains a still image.