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"How long does it takes??"
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for the demonstration video located on the home page. This
full demo package is included with SuperImposer package as a
tutorial. The overall process comprises:
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benchmark uses mostly Poser Pro as the source of
images, the comments in italic discusses all
possible origins for the image source files.) |
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The PNG image base, generated by
Poser Pro 2008 |
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Video and transparencies,and
all intermediate frames output assembled by
SuperimPoser |
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The hardware conf relies on
a laptop Intel P4 dual corer,
with 2GB of RAM, running Windows 7. |
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Disk space used is less than
2GB. |
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Final wrapping used :
NCH video editor, for the sound
synchronization (1)
Free studio's, Free Video to JPG Converter" to
decompile the background video into images.(2)
Free Format Factory, to convert the final AVI video file
into the famous H.264 mp4 format.(3)
Of course any alternative solution will do fine as
well.
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Generating the 3D image base |
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Exe |
# Images |
Rendering |
Time per image |
Duration |
| Ryan |
Poser Pro |
900 |
Final mode |
22 seconds |
5 hours 30 mn. |
| Marcus |
Poser Pro |
900 |
Final mode |
32 seconds |
8 hours |
| Amandine |
Poser Pro |
245 |
Final mode |
24 seconds |
1 hour 38 mn. |
| Ryan+Marcus |
Poser Pro |
810 |
Final mode |
34 seconds |
7 hour 45 mn. |
| Couloir |
Poser Pro |
245 |
Final mode |
16 seconds |
1 hour 5 mn. |
| Background |
(2) |
900 |
800-600 |
- |
2 mn. |
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| In all 4000 images
were output in 24 hours. |
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generally, background (non transparent) image format
may be jpg, bmp, png, from any source. Foreground
(transparent) image formats are to be PNG, due to
its transparency management.There is no limit, other
than the available disk space, concerning the number
of images, as well as the number of transparency
layers. Based on this example (800*600 output
format) an image base of 300,000 images would
require 200 GB of disk space. That is almost 3 hours
long video at a rate of 30 frames by second. As we
will see next, SuperImposer is not the time
consuming guy: Neither on the setting side, nor in
the production process. |
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Superimposer only: Merging and output of the
transparent layers, video compiling
(intermediate layers and videos are
respectively called 'Ln' and 'Vn', with n as the
order of creation) |
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| Action |
# Images |
File output
duration |
Video output
duration |
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video: |
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| Ryan
on background (=L0) |
1800
(900 on 900) |
9
minutes |
no use. |
| Marcus
on L0 (=L1) |
1800
(900 on 900) |
9
minutes |
3
minutes 30 secs.(V1) |
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video: |
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| Couloir
on L1 (=L2) |
246
(245 on 1) |
2
minutes 20 secs. |
no
use. |
| Amandine
on L2 (=L3) |
245
on 245 |
2
minutes 10 secs. |
50
seconds (V2) |
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