7.5+ Movie tools

[Alderfek]

Started playing around with the movie tools over the weekend. Was wondering if there is a way to create a movie without any of the pull-downs showing up in the completed movie ?

Thanks,
Kirk

Kirk Alderfer
Designer
Meggitt Polymers & Composites
Rockmart, Georgia

"Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function." -John Pfeiffer

 

[jpetach]

Kirk,

Is the concern the dialog to get to the stop record at the end? if so, can you use the hot key (Alt F7) to end the recording?
Or is the concent the dialog during the activites being recored? Can the toolss, movie, settings, "capture area" set to "Graphics" do the trick?

 

[JohnRBaker]

You could set the movie to only record the contents of the NX Graphics window and then unlink the NX Graphics window so that you can control it's size and location independent of the NX window thus avoiding having any dialogs occluding any portion of the smaller NX Graphics window, as seen in the attached image.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
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[Alderfek]

Ah ha, something new for the old dog. How would I go about "unlinking" the graphics window ?

Kirk Alderfer
Designer
Meggitt Polymers & Composites
Rockmart, Georgia

"Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function." -John Pfeiffer

 

[MickyV007]

Window --> Cascade ...

Greetings.

Best regards,

Michäël.

NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native

 

[JohnRBaker]

Perhaps if I had said 'unmaximize' it would have been more obvious. See the attached image for a help in finding the place to go.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[Alderfek]

Oh holy crap Batman ! Maybe if I had thought about what you had said and if I had gotten more than 2 hours sleep last night...'nuf said eh ?

Thanks

Kirk Alderfer
Designer
Meggitt Polymers & Composites
Rockmart, Georgia

"Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function." -John Pfeiffer

 

[marcus05isu]

Is there any way to enhance the "Record Movie" resolution? This feature works great, but the video quality is very poor.
Thanks!

 

[JohnRBaker]

This is generally dependent on which codec (the algorithms used to perform the video compression) that is used when recording the video. The compression options (or codecs) supplied with NX are ones which were provided free by Microsoft and the supplier of the tools we used to create this feature. There are others which you can either download from the net (some free, some not) or which come with programs like Camtasia from TechSmith. If you have, for example, Camtasia installed on your system then you will also have access to their suite of codecs which are often superior to the ones which are available for free from the net.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[PDW]

Hi Alderfek,

I have purchaged a license of FastStone Capture.
It costed me $19,95 and it is a pretty usefull tool.
You can screengrab what you want and it works fine with Screen recording too.

Does all what it needs to do, except the White Background you have to do yourself...

http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

Best regards,

Pascal,

NX5.04+TC2007 (GM Toolkit) / NX7.5 native

 

[potrero]

John,
if you have a better codec installed, how do you select that codec when recording a movie?

 

[JohnRBaker]

On the 'Movie' toolbar, select the far Right icon, labeled 'Movie Recording Settings', and in the first section of the dialog where it says 'Compression', this where you can select from a list of available codecs.



John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.