[rb1]

Hi

Can anybody tell me how I can import a movie from a DV camera into Lightwave so that I can use it as a guide for my animations.

Cheers

[Claudio]

I could help you if all you need was DV to HDD (which you need a capture card). Once the Media is already into your system.

To import to Lightwave I don't know (even if it's possible). As matter of fact all my work combiding real futage with animation are done with Premiere. I use shots (1 frame) as backdrop to do so.

[Mark]

I'd suggest capturing the DV with whatever video capture mechanism you use (personally I use Premiere with Firewire), and then either:

a) Re-render down to a lower res AVI file or
b) Extract the stills you need to use

since the captured DV file will likely be rather large and probably cause LW to choke...

[rb1]

Where in Lightwave 7.5 do I import a low res AVI? It's not in the scene editor or the image editor as far as I can see.

Thankyou.

[Mark]

You load an AVI into Lightwave using the image editor (simply select 'All Files' as the file filter in the file browser.

To display it as a backdrop, simply open the compositing panel and select the AVI sequence as the background image.

Be warned though that the frame slider will seriously chug - I've just tried it with a short 1200x600 widescreen AVI in a blank scene and updates are taking around .5 to 1 second per frame on my Athlon XP1900+ w/512MB Ram)

[MicroMonkey]

acually you can export it to DivX an import it as a backround, when you browse you choose "all files" and then you simply choose your video file.. done, but if you want to se it as a backroound, then you have to go to "display properties" and then on "camera view backround" you choose "backround image"

all done

[MicroMonkey]

ooops diden to the post over mine, sorry