Activating People & Video
Alongside Props , Preview enables you to add photo-realistic people to your scenes for scale and dynamism. To access the controls press the video/people button here on the shoot screen ( show image)
Press the button to bring up the Active People panel. (You can close it by pressing the X in the upper right-hand corner)
Video people are activated and controlled by picture slot, so first, decide which picture slot you’d like to add a person to.
Identify the slot number on the menu and tick the box under the Active column. Then click on the Name box to reveal the options or cycle through them using the arrows under the Name column.
Adjust the position using position sliders. The press preview to review the animated sequence.
To remove a video person, untick the Active box or cycle through the prop options until you reach None.
Artwork Video Playback is also controlled via Prop/Video Options.
The default setting for the video state is First Frame. This means that the first frame of the clip will appear as a placeholder on screen and will not play.
To make the video play, select Play in the drop down menu.
The video will automatically play when the shot starts. The next shot then will pick up automatically from the last frame played. You can also Restart the video, or select Pause to keep it static throughout the shot.
NB. If the shot is longer than the video clip, the video will loop back to the beginning when it finishes.
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