Animation newbee help

[danieljhatton]

I have set up an animation of a camera rotating around a product over 360 frames. I have all the settings perfect for rendering. My question is, do I need to render the animation as a sequence of 360 still jpegs? If so, can someone please guide me on how to compile these into an animation? My client wants to see the 360 animation working on its own, and one that they can rotate themselves. She also wants it to go on-line.

I would really appreciate some help on this if someone doesn't mind. In all the years I have been doing Arch Vis I have never really touched on this kind of work until now so I am a bit of a noob when it comes to working out what to do.

I was wondering if iMovie on my Macbook can sort me out?

Thanks Guys,

Daniel

[peterguthrie]

I usually use quicktime pro for this, or virtualdub, but qt is easier. I'm sure imovie must be able to import an image sequence too.

don't listen to me though, i know nothing about animation!

[pnel77]

I use after effects: render out a jpeg sequence from max, open in AE, add titles and music and write out as quicktime file (animation codec) - this gives you good quality movie but large file size..then use Adobe Media Encoder to compress the file to wmv format.
Problem is that it takes time to learn and fine tune your settings - maybe it's best (although risky) to save directly to avi format when rendering out the animation in max?

[Morne]

for them to "rotate it" tehmselves you're talking about either realtime stuff or about a panaromaic qt file. They won't be able to rotate anything if it is just an animation file. They can play the animation back and forth, but can't interact with the object. For that you need a realtime scene (do a search on realtime 3d)