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this video is recorded in Home Designer
Suite and applies to Suite architectural
and professional in this video we'll
discuss how to record a walk-through
video we'll start by drawing the
walkthrough path including drawing a
path that extends to our second floor
then we'll add keyframes to the paths
that allow us to adjust the views height
speed and orientation and we'll finish
by looking at the walkthrough options
for recording along the path I'll begin
with a finished plan ready for a
walkthrough to begin under the 3d menu
I'll find the 3d walkthrough tools and
I'll select create a walkthrough path
this is a spline based object to create
a path with the tool active I'll click
and drag in the direction I want to walk
I like to draw in relatively short
segments to maintain control over the
spline then to continue the path I'll
put my cursor directly over the camera
at the end of the current path and click
and drag out a continuation I'll
continue to do this moving the path
towards the stairs
then I can drag the camera and release
at the bottom of the stairs and it will
automatically climb the stairs for me
now if I want I can go upstairs and
continue drawing the walkthrough path
but I'm going to end it there I'll
double click on the spline path to open
the walkthrough path specification in
here we'll see a list of our keyframes
note that they are numbered sequentially
first to the last
you can insert additional keyframes in
the plan and when you insert one they
are added here and automatically
renumber din sequence to add a keyframe
I'm going to exit out of this dialog
select the spline select this add
keyframe option in the Edit toolbar and
then I can click anywhere along the line
to add a frame the more keyframes you
have along a path the more control you
have over the recording you can also
delete keyframes by opening the
specification dialog clicking on a
keyframe then selecting delete the
keyframe will be removed and the
remaining keyframes will renumber to
maintain the sequence each keyframe has
properties you can view and adjust for
example if I click on keyframe one will
see it's on floor 1 though we could
assign it to be on another floor another
value you could see and adjust is the
speed after in feet per second which
will define your walking speed from this
frame until it reaches the next one I'm
going to reduce the speed after to 1 for
every keyframe accepts the first to
create a slower walk for the first frame
I want to enter the house quickly so
I'll leave that one 3 feet per second
camera angle adjusts the rotation of the
camera in relation to the path when at 0
degrees the camera will simply follow
the path as drawn you can adjust the
camera angle in plan view
if I exit out of this view and select
the path you can see that each camera
has a move handle allowing you to move
it in a different location on the path
and rotate the handle so you can adjust
the camera angle then when I open the
line again and go to that frame you can
see the angle has changed and I can put
in a different number if I want to tilt
angle allows you to look up and down
along the path zero degrees will look
straight forward if you have a ceiling
detail or want to look up at upper
cabinets for instance you can put a
positive angle if you want to look down
at the floor you can put a negative
angle for the first keyframe I'm going
to add a negative angle of negative 7.5
finally you can adjust the camera height
off the floor by default we are five
feet high but you can raise or lower
that depending upon what you want to
look at for this first keyframe I'm
going to set it to be 200 inches in the
air we'll start the recording up above
the house looking down then gradually
approach the floor door once we've made
the adjustments you can see the time of
the end recording here and walkthrough
options so in this case the recording
will be about 60 seconds long increase
in the speed of the path or decreasing
the length of the path will both
decrease the overall time of the
walkthrough so now we'll select the line
and in the Edit toolbar select record
walkthrough along path here we'll have
some additional options to control the
recording compression has to do with the
quality of the image a value of zero is
the highest quality but also increases
the file size of the recording a
walkthrough is basically just a number
of pictures taken along a line and woven
together to create a video the number
frames per second therefore is the
number of camera shots the program will
take per second of the recording and
remember the number of seconds for the
recording depends upon how long the line
is and how fast we will be moving
through each keyframe along that line
the more frames per second the smoother
the recording but also the longer it
will take to create the recording and
the larger the file size of that
recording we're going to change this
value to 30 frames per second to create
a smoother video you'll see this
increases our total frames to record to
1818 frames meaning it's going to take
that many pictures along the line here
we can increase or decrease the
resolution or size of images in the
video the larger the resolution the
clearer the image on the larger screen
but the recording will also take longer
to generate a larger file size we can
change the render and technique here and
decide if we'll have shadows and bloom
which is a more realistic lighting
effect turned on for our recording and
finally we need to decide what type of
video file we will produce then we'll
select okay decide where we want to save
the video and what to name it and then
when I select save it will begin
recording the video
once the recording gets through all the
frames the recording will stop to find
the video you recorded you'll need to go
to the location on your machine where
you saved it you may find when you watch
the video that you need to make changes
and re-record for instance you might
wind up going too fast at one point in
which case you would want to open up the
walkthrough path and decrease your feet
per second at that keyframe or you might
not want to walk through a closed door
in which case you can select the door in
question then in the Edit toolbar select
show door open and 3d you can also
adjust the spline itself so if you move
too close to a wall you can select the
line and use the Edit handles and adjust
its shape then once you made all your
changes you can select the walkthrough
path and again select record walk
through a long path so to record a walk
through you draw a walk through path add
keyframes to gain more control over
where the camera is looking and how fast
it is moving along the path and then
select to record the walk through and
save it in a location on your computer
then you can watch the video or take
that file and send to someone else
to view your home
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