A cool theater logo... print, project or animate. - Page 4

I'm in as soon as I can come up with a good theater name that sticks with this theater.

i finished my model, 15-16 hours rendering for uncompressed file, i modified the one you posted first. I even went as far as encoding to dvd. awesome work reaper!

cant wait to see some jaw dropping when my friends see this.

Does computer speed, RAM, Etc...Determine how long the render takes? I really want to take part in this, but I dont have a name for my theater yet...

I started mine last night around 12:30am.... It's still chugging along. My home PC is in my office and it's painful watching each image being built.... I wanna see the finished product!!!

Someone mentioned startup pictures on a projector in an earlier post. I haven't looked into PJ's that much. Do they have the capability to store a pic file that displays when the PJ is turned on?

Nice work Reaper!

I just gotta say you are doing QUITE a service to the boards by doing this Reap, everyone should be greatful (And donate!) But, My computer is on the faster side, so I was hoping it would go a little faster then 20 hrs. I am trying really, really, REALLY hard to think of a name so I can use your gracious services...few more seconds......hmmm

for those who havent finished rendering the animation and want to know where the end of the tunnel is.. theres 660 frames in the 21 second animation.
(watch them tick away one by one in the dos status window in blender)

video_ts file.. kinda a long process, but heres how i did it.
i used
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html [FREEWARE]
TMPGEnc to convert the AVI file (and add the sound) into a usable MPG. you have to convert it to mpg first before making the dvd video.

in the wizard. just
select "NTSC 16:9" then
"CBR MPEG-1 Layer II Audio (MP2)" in the drop down box
click next

select the video file, (the audio file will auto populate, change that to the audio mp3 file if it doesnt have the audio yet else leave it alone)

under the Aspect ratio select "4:3 525 line (NTSC, 704x480)"
click next
click next again
click next one more time
then click ok.

your file should now be a high quality mpg

last program
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html
TMPGenc DVD Author [TRIAL VERSION]
click, "create new project"
click "add file" and select the mpg you just made
click "OK" in that window
accross the top, click "Create Menu"
select "No Menu" in the drop down box on the left
accross the top, click "Outut"
check off the box "Create DVD folder"
click begin output

whole process will take 15 mins (depending on PC speed).. and it will make the needed VIDEO_TS files (VOB files)

Ugh.... Mine's been going for 13 hours and I'm only on frame 191. I have a 1.5 GHz P4.... I need a new computer.

LOL!

Reaper,
Outstanding still! Thank you. Can't wait to get to work on the animation.

Best regards
Don

Ummm.... nope. I'm up to 209 frame now. Warp speed Mr. Sulu!

Just found this thread.

Reaper:

This is way cool. Love the video, the sound is great. Can i still get in on a video file and the instructions on creating the AVI file?

Looks cool. I wouldn't mind getting something like this in my clip library. I can automate any clips to play prior to starting my film and am building a collection of all the DTS, DD5.1 and THX intros.

Any way I could get a blender file sent to me? I am having some problems changing the text in the FOX file (except the bottom text).

I would like to write:

Welcome to the
Poindexter
Home Theater

reaper!! GREAT JOB!! I had to jummp in and join the band wagon of well wishers!!



-Sean

I used the model you provided and created a "quick & dirty" animation. (The only change I made was to change the size of the video to only half its original dimensions - 1/4 the number of pixels - so my computer could make it quickly.) It worked fine, and looks great.

I started the process last night of rendering the full-size animation. If I remember right, I started about 17 hours ago and I just got the report from my wife that it was on frame 370 as of about 10 minutes ago. Assuming the frames each take the same amount of time to render, I'll be done in only... uh... 12 hours or so.

I'd be happy to put up a compressed file if anybody is interested in seeing it, but I'm not sure where to have it hosted.

I have not had a chance to project the image yet in my theater because... well... because my theater is still in its formative stages. (I'm almost done with my DIY screen, then need to paint the walls and ceiling. Oh... and I need to buy the projector. )

I modified the Fox file a little just to see how it will look, but I don't think the animation will be finished until tomorrow, as I am on frame 6 right now.

As soon as it is done, I will burn it to DVD, take it home and see how it looks, although I would prefer the later one with the stacked "to the" at the end of Welcome. This will just to be a proof of concept, I guess.