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Viewing a video file as a motion reference?
 
lightningad
Posted: 14 September 2022 08:33 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Is there any way to use a video clip within C4d (2023)  (either as a viewport back iamge or on a Background Object) so i can use it to reference positioning of the model, and also to time animation to coincide with the video ?

I am sure i used to just add a quicktime movie to a material colour channel and that just worked, but all i can get now if the first frame of video that never changes. I tried using a tiff sequence and seting the animation for the colour channel to use all the frames and hit calculate but nothing updates in the viewports.

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Adam

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Dr. Sassi
Posted: 14 September 2022 03:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Adam,

Please try this:

Go to the Standard Material> Viewport> Animate Preview: check

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lightningad
Posted: 15 September 2022 05:58 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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thanks DrSassi - i had a feeling it would be something really simple!

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Posted: 15 September 2022 01:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Great! Thank you very much for the feedback, Adam.

My best wishes for your project.

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