jackhalsey opened this issue on Aug 09, 2007 · 8 posts
jackhalsey posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 6:23 PM
Hello I imported a pz3 scene from poser 7 into carrara 5 pro. It is basically Brutalis (the freak) doing a pushup.
When I render him he appears smaller and now has on this gigantic hat. Plus its a 120 frame scene and Carrara only renders 2-3 frames and then states an unknown error has occurred.
Please advise.
MarkBremmer posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 6:29 PM
Hi Jack, Are you running Vista? Vista hates most of the codecs out there and will hang renders...
jackhalsey posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 8:14 PM
Yes windows vista ultimate as I got a dual 2 core computer with 8 gigs and thought it would make things render faster..any work around for vista...went to it as it will recognize more than 3 gigs of memory which is the limitation of xp......thank you.
fpfrdn3 posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 9:17 PM
Yep, just had a discussion on Polyloop forums. Carrara hates .AVI for Vista systems that I read on Google searches, and it just won't work(unknown error on 2nd/3rd frame animations). The other standard BMP/GIF/JPG sequences etc. should work fine though, plus a few other formats/codecs from the net(Im still learning info about them).
Vista has a few updates to go before its works 100% with alot of things. Carrara may get a fix in C6 I hope. AVI works for most other 3dcg programs though, so its not all Vistas fault. 
jackhalsey posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 11:35 PM
fp
Thank you thats exactly what happened it died in the 2nd 3rd frame..so I will make it a bmp sequence but how do you export from poser with NO rendering?
fpfrdn3 posted Thu, 09 August 2007 at 11:56 PM
According to what I see, even existing .AVIs that come with my Carrara don't play in my Media player(I have Vista HB 64bit). It says the codec isn't supported or something.
I would suspect that this should be an easy codec fix by C6, or Vista hotfixes and service packs. There are a couple of newer Vista updates that mention AVI stuff, if you want to run your OS update(my Vista comp is not an online one, its a dedicated system and Im waiting for service pack).
I don't have Poser, Im still new at this, but others may be able to answer export question.
MarkBremmer posted Fri, 10 August 2007 at 5:29 AM
Hi Jack, The file that Carrara imports from Poser doesn't need to be rendered prior to the import. Carrara can read the animation information.
jackhalsey posted Fri, 10 August 2007 at 4:27 PM
Thank you both and its kinda good that I am not the only one with problem with vista and you would think they would have the codec thing ironed out....
Mark
Carrara does a much better render than Poser the photorealism is fantastic. I have heard animation is better also but I am used to Poser....