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Missing Export button in Movie Palette

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#1

I sent this to support as well on Saturday, but I’m running short on time and I thought the forums might be helpful.

I need to record turntables of several characters that I have been working on for a class. When I open the movie palette, I can record and delete movies, but I cannot export them. I know where the button should be, but there is nothing there and the “Play Movie” button extends the full width of the frame. I have attached an image of how the palette appears.

I thought that it may have been a bad install, I backed up and deleted the 3.2 folder and reinstalled it with no change.

Thinking that it may have to do with the version of Quicktime I have, I have Quicktime 7.6.4 installed, as well as a variety of different codecs.

Is this an issue of a missing script or a bad install? Can I have this fixed by Monday?

I need to have these turntables finished by midnight PST Monday(Dec. 14, 2009).

#2

I know this sounds ridiculous but there has been no movie export option in any of the ZBrush 3.xx mac versions. The only way to record a turntable movie is to use a third part screen capture program. If you run OSX 10.6, you can do this with Quicktime X, otherwise you need to use Jing, Screenflow, iShowU etc.

Richard

#3

Wow, that is surprising. I’ve just assumed up to this point that I had a bad install.

So to record the turntable, I have to record the turntable through, then setup the screen capture program and play the turntable back?

Thanks, I guess I’ll be picking up and learning a new screen capture software today!

#4

You could try the Turntable Plus plugin from the download centre. I believe this is able to output an image sequence you can then load into quicktime.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=057913

Richard

#5

As Richard Marklew says, your best option is to use the Turntable Plus plugin, available from the Download Center, and use Quicktime Pro to load in the image sequence.

#6

Thanks for the help.

I’ve added turntable plus, and I’ll give it a try.