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Why so hard to output turntables???!!

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#1

Hello-
Im a Mac user. I have no eport quicktime option. I dont understand this since even video games like world of warcraft can out put quicktime files. Zbrush is “3d” graphics program. Doesn’t it make it kinda useless to not be able to out put a turntable in QT? So there is turntable plus. This is equally ill-concieved as it out puts stills-only. This would be OK IF the stills could have alpha channels. But the alpha channels are output as separate images! WHY? This is really frustrating. As far as I can see I now have to take 720 frames and manually create images that have alpha channels in photoshop so that they are usable for compsiting in After Effects. Why has Pixologic not fixed this??? Plus GoZ to Maya doesnt work at all. I have contacted support about this and they had no solutions. So I have this awesome model that I can only make stills of. What use is that? Sure I could export .OBj’s. But why is this stuff so broken. I dont get it.

Please help.

#2

QuickTime export is going to be restored with version 3.5, which is currently in beta testing. It depends upon code that had already been partly re-written for version 3.5 at the time that version 3.12 was released.

For now, one thing that you could do would be to make a turntable and then play it back while running a video capture application.

#3

Hey dude!

Don’t worry man it’s not too difficult.
Import the images in After Effects as a photoshop sequence.
Then import the alpha images as a photoshop sequence.
Make a new composition and drop the two sequences into it.
Now invert the alpha channel.
Make sure the alpha sequence is above the image sequence.

Finally, in the composition window click on the button “toggle/switches mode”. Below where is says “Trkmat” click the drop down and select luma mat.

I hope this is clear. If not give me a shout and I will help sort it.

sorry for bad grammar.

#4

I think I was just frustrated when I made this thread. I didnt mean to be so negative I don’t think. I now use turntable plus and output stills and alpha’s just fine. Although i still have issues with turntable plus.