Sweet Home 3D Help > Creating photos and videos

|  |  | Creating videos

To create a 3D video of your home, select the 3D view > Create video... menu item or click on the Create video tool. Create video tool This will display a dialog box similar to the one dedicated to photos creation. At the top of this pane, appears the plan of your home upon which the virtual path of the video camera will be drawn. Below the plan, the recording, playback and deletion buttons helps you to record the points the camera path shall pass by, playback the recorded path or remove some path points. The Video format combo box lets you choose the size, apect ratio and frame rate of the video, among most common formats. The Quality slider and possibly other fields are the same as the one found in the photo creation pane. To create a video, choose the initial location of the video camera in the 3D view of Sweet Home 3D main window, and click on the red button in the video creation pane. Then move in the 3D view to the next location of the video camera and click again on the red button. Repeat these steps for each location the camera should pass by during the video. Each time you click on the red button, a new point is added in the plan displayed by the video creation pane to show you the path of the camera. Once you're satisfied by the path you created, click on the Create button to start the computing of the video frames. Once this computing is finished, click on the Save... button to save the video in a Quicktime file. You may view this video with differents tools like VLC or transcode it in an other format.

• | Use playback buttons to check roughly the path of the camera in the 3D view of Sweet Home 3D main window, because once started, computing a video may take minutes to hours depending on your home, the chosen quality and the power of your computer.
• | The vertical elevation of the camera, its two rotation angles and its field of view are also stored at each recorded location. This information is taken into account during the proccess of the video and let you create all kind of animations. At the two best quality levels, you may also set a different hour at each recorded point even if you didn't move the camera between two recorded points. If the hour set at the first recorded point is at the beginning of the day and the hour set at the second point is at the end of the day, you'll get an animation showing what parts of a room will receive direct sun light during a day.
• | The Create video dialog box isn't modal. This means that it doesn't block the input in other windows and lets you change the current point of view in the 3D view of main window before recording a new camera location, even if this dialog box is opened.
• | While a video is computed, changes made in your home won't affect the current rendering.