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davidlingenbrink
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Whenever I drag a video onto a billboard (or anything) the video only appears in the upper left quadrant of the billboard, leaving the other 3/4 blank (black). What to do?
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This problem has croppoed-up many times (Including for myself). A few fixes have been Posted. I haven't a clue where they are in the Forum. Try entering some relevant words in the Forum Search & checkout Drag & Drop in iClone On-Lline Help & PDF Manual. I think I have a Notepad Fix, which I'll add to my Post, when I can find it. ADDED- Here's one Fix: I am using the motion montage (vol 2) action panels and TV walls. Every tutorial I view shows dragging a video file to one of these props and the file fits the wall or panel perfectly. When I try it, the file sits in the top right corner of the wall or panel and does not re-size. What am I doing wrong please? I want my video to completely fill the panel or wall! Thanks in advance, Glenn |
My experience has been that you will need to "reset" the "VU settings" once you drag an image into a panel or most any object on the stage. I hit the "Apply" button and maybe change the "Align" axis x,y or z. Then you might have to use one of the "Rotate" buttons in the "Material & Texture Settings" panel.
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Anyone-else? davidlingenbrink (9/30/2011) Whenever I drag a video onto a billboard (or anything) the video only appears in the upper left quadrant of the billboard, leaving the other 3/4 blank (black). What to do?
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Thanks so much. The suggestions worked perfectly.
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davidlingenbrink (9/30/2011) Thanks so much. The suggestions worked perfectly.Glad you got it Fixed All credit to Mark, who originnally Posted the Fix
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Dear Tutor, I find the following problems with iClone 4.3 (and also iClone 5): 1) I see from all the video tutorials that the preview (Editor /Director) window keeps always the available space while when I open the program the Preview window is smaller :there are blank areas above and below (see Image 1 attached) . I have tried to change my screen resolution but without success.Actually I'm working in 1280x1024 pixels. 2) Also in my case - as happened to "Newbie" above - when I drag and drop a video on the Preview window (both using Left Mous Button or Right Button and applying video on plane , billboard etc..) the Video appears always in the left upper portion of the window (or plane /billboard) . I have tried to settle the problem as suggested but whathever I do with the UV settings , Align , Rotate etc... the result is always the same because it is impossible to resize the video itself.(See Image 2 attached) Actually I skip this problem changing the original video size (using a Video Converter) until it fits completely in the window. Unfortunately this "re-size" is not the same for all the videos and it is a waste of time to try and re-try 3) Despite of all the video formats which shall be imported (AVI,WMV,MOV,FLV, etc..) It seems that I can import only (drag and drop) the .WMV format. For all the other types an error message appears "... codec is not recognized...." (See attached Image 3). Believe me , I have all the updated Video codec on my PC and all the other software installed have no problem with any format ! May be that something is wrong in the iClone Configuration files which can be corrected ?? For example I see that in C/Programs/Reallusion/iClone 4/PROFILE there are many .txt files for Audio Format but only 1 file for Video (the name of this file is WmvProfileTemplate.prx and reading it with the NoteBlock only format .Wmv appears) Thanks in advance for any suggestion /solution you can give me on the above . P.S. : Regarding Problem 2 if really it can be solved playing with the UV settings can you give me a step by step instruction to follow once I have loaded the Video
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Tutor refers to the number of Posts & has no bearing on technical competence. In my case - Zilch! My Forum Username is Colour. However, best to deal with your points one at a time, in different Posts. 1) What's your Monitor Screen Aspect Ratio? 4:3 or 16:9 (Widescreen)? See my Widescreen Monitor 1280 X 720 Resolution Screenshot. Try that. Your other points need to be answered after you've got point 1) fixed first. ADDED - Go to; Eport Tab / AVI / Standard Size Drop-Down & Select DVD NTSC/PAL & return to Set Tab. That might fix it. Project Resolution should match Export Resolution. It may be that you have your Export at a lower Resolution, that's causing the problem. In the meantime, anyone-else?
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I gave an explanation about #1 in this post: https://forum.reallusion.com/FindPost103140.aspx. Also, for the purposes of a tutorial it is of course easy to adjust the export aspect ratio so that the preview window fits perfectly. I export in widescreen and always have blank areas in preview. It is actually useful when working with the timeline.
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colour (11/19/2011)
Tutor refers to the number of Posts & has no bearing on technical competence. In my case - Zilch! Don't be too modest, Peter...
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Dear ANIMAGIC and dear COLOUR (You are too modest ! Sorry for the mistake but since I'm new in iClone , I need to understand it before to use it..... In any case for me You are both TUTORS!)
-Thanks also for this suggestion regarding problem #1 : Now I know where to go to change the resolution as the Export settings affects also the preview window resolution. Effectively in the "Standard Size" DropDown menu I had 320 x240 , but I never opened this tab because I had nothing to export ! - Problem #2 is also solved changing the U and V TILING values to increase the size of the Video/Image until it fits to the plane or billboard
It would be enough if these tips were mentioned in the .Pdf manual......
Thus my problem # 1 and #2 are solved and I can start to do something in iClone It remains only Problem #3 regarding the video formats
Thanks again for your precious support !
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"It remains only Problem #3 regarding the video formats" I've got a feeling you might need to Download & Install K-Lite CODEC Pack. I think there's a reference to that in the Drag & Drop Section in the User Manual, with a Link to the Download. I'll check it-out. That being said, you have to be careful with the Pack, since it can Install CODECs you don't need & screw-up the ones that you already have. However, I think that was possicbly one of the K-Lite Updates, which is a seperate Download. ADDED - Here's a screenshot of one warning message.There was another one - Should have screenshot that one. If you have W7 OS, you should get same message or messages, if you install corruptable CODECS.
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