Solidworks Motion Study Rendering Problem (seizure inducing flashes!)

[IntEren]

I am creating a 2 minute video to display the entirety of our facility were designing. There are some rotating and linear motion parts operating the entire time the camera is "flying" around the plant looking at each machine. The motion study is working great but when we render it there are random instances of half the screen flashing, or part of the floor all the machines mate to flashing constantly. the portion of the screen that is flashing changes as the camera moves and some parts don't flash at all. We've tried lots of different combinations of frames per second and compression with and without the "key frames..." button checked. It doesn't do this when we play the video in solidworks, only after its rendered and played in a video player.

Please direct us to anything you can think of. We're trying to put together a presentation by friday 5/12. Thanks!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Which video players have you tried?

Have you tried using different Codecs?

 

[IntEren]

Blimey,

I've tried a slew of video players (windows, quicktime, vlc...) it makes no difference what you play it in. I've tried a couple different codecs and even rendering it as hundreds of bitmap files then compiling them.

The flashes seem to be due to a couple of things; angle of camera, depth of calculations/motion at each frame, how close you are to what you're looking at. We have made everything not moving into rigid groups, slowed down the motors and changed the camera angles to where all but one 1 second portion of the video stopped flashing. We can't get rid of this last flash. it happens when the camera transitions from an overhead view of the whole facility to a side view of a moving part. Thanks for any advice.

 

[kellnerp]

You might want to look at what you are producing with ffmpeg. Not all videos are created equal and it seems I remember reading about various frame rates, some fractional and what some software does to fill in the gaps.

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