Learn about exporting animations using SketchUp, including adjusting frame rates, dimensions, resolution, and line scale multiplier. Discover how SketchUp allows you to have control over adjusting each animation clip, styles, shadow settings, and more for a customized end product.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed guide on exporting animations in SketchUp, including options for exporting as an mp4 video file or jpeg, png, tiff image sets, and adjusting settings such as frame rate and file dimensions.
- With SketchUp, users can modify each animation individually, adjusting aspects such as the shadows, styles, and settings for each clip, giving the user full control over the animation process and end product.
- In addition to animation capabilities, the article highlights the various other features and tools in SketchUp such as building structures, using guides, and customizing components which make it an extremely useful tool for architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design.
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Welcome back to the final video of the SketchUp 101 course. If you would like to export the animation to send to friends, family, or even a client, I can go to file, export, animation. You can see that there are multiple options of export file types.
There's an mp4 video file or there are jpeg and png tiff image sets. If I click an image set and go to options, you can see that there's a frame rate that I can make it into 30 frames per second or 10 frames per second, and I can also adjust the dimensions of my file. The larger file size it is, the longer it's going to take to export.
With frame rate, if I do an image set and say I set each transition to be four seconds, that means if I did it on 30 frames per second, 30 times 4 will be 120 frames. So this is going to export 120 frames in between each scene. That's a lot of images, so it can take a couple hours depending on the size that you do.
It could even take multiple hours. A video will basically export exactly what you see on the screen at the frame rate and the dimensions that you want. With a video, you can still adjust your resolution to be fairly high, but there is a warning that the maximum size that you can export will be 4096 in width.
If I change it to 496, you can see that this is the maximum size. With an image set, I also have the same options, and I'm also not able to go anything higher than 4096. Your line scale multiplier shows the thicknesses of your edges and your lines, and you can play around with the right effect that you want with it.
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I am not going to export a video or animation right now, as that'll take way too long, but feel free to do so on your own. So that is one quick way to create an animation in SketchUp. You can also modify each of these animations and make each one individual.
Say for example, you want animation 3 to have a different type of shadows. You want the shadows to be further in the evening, right? I can update this, and then animation 4, I want the shadows to be further at night, right? And then even darker, like it's becoming the evening, I can update this. And then if I go in transition from animation 2 and play this animation, you'll see that SketchUp will adjust the shadows accordingly between each clip automatically, and it'll fill in the gaps and make a nice kind of gradual scene.
So you have a lot more control over adjusting not only what each animation clip does, but also the styles and the shadow settings that you have provided for each one. Well, there you have it. I think we covered a lot in this SketchUp 101 course.
We learned about building a picnic table. We learned about using guides and all the tools in the, basically, our large tool set. We built a carousel.
We built a fountain using the Follow Me tool. We used 3D text. We learned about topography using the Drape tool.
And then we learned about using components, how to customize components, allow components to be face me, or modify the way that the component snaps on and glues to certain faces. Well, I hope you enjoyed this course. Lots to talk about, lots to cover.
Feel free to reach out to me. Happy to help. I use SketchUp almost every day with my professional setting, and it's an extremely useful tool for architecture, landscape architecture, interior design.
The sky is the limit for this program, as we can see all of the extensions that you can install and really customize it to your exact needs. I love this program. I hope that you equally have a new kind of love towards it.
Thank you for your time, and I'll see you next time.
