HOW TO: Record, Play and Export Flythrough

HOW TO: Record, Play and Export Flythrough

Add a Flythrough object in Scene Explorer

  1. Login to udStream
  2. In the Scene Explorer menu at the top of the screen, select Add Flythrough

3. A Camera Path object will appear on the Scene Explorer

Record Flythrough

  1. Select Camera Path in Scene Explorer
  2. A window will appear on the upper-right side

  3. Click on Record, all movement in Scene will be recorded
Note that you can Stop and Restart a Recording for a particular Flythrough object. These will cause the flythrough to fly over from the first recording's last frame to second point
Play Flythrough

  1. Select Camera Path
  2. A window will appear on the upper-right side

  3. Click on Play, udStream will playback the scene captured by Record
  4. If there are issues with the smoothness of the flythrough, you can attempt to smoothen it out via the Smooth tool

Export Flythrough

Export as a sequence of Images

  1. Select Camera Path
  2. A window will appear on the upper-right side

  3. Hover on Export, a dropdown will appear allowing you to update settings including Resolution, FPS, Format and Path

  4. Once done, click on Export. udStream will export all recorded frames into a set of images
You can use a 3rd-party software (e.g Adobe Premiere Pro, FFMPEG) to create a frame animation and render a video out of the exported images

Export as Video

This feature is currently only available on Windows
  1. Select Camera Path 
  2. A window will appear on the upper-right side 

  3. Hover on Export, a dropdown will appear allowing you to update settings including Resolution, FPS and Path. Under Export Format, select H264 MP4




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