Adding Video to a Screen in a Daz Studio Animated Music Video

teknostorm

I am in the process of making a music video in Daz 3D (and edited in Vegas Pro) where a live footage video of the band will play on a big screen at at the back of a set. On the set are several props and 12 dancers/crowd. The video will have multiple camera angles and the characters will be blocking much of the screen at times. I am attaching a couple of sample screenshots to show what I mean.

What's the easiest way to get video on the screen?

Here are the options I can think of -

1. Video footage texture mapped in Daz by unknown method (I saw a plugin that used sequenced images to texture map video, but not sure how it works)

2. Track the screen in compositing software and put footage with a lot of effort (blocking out characters in multiple angle shots)

3. Import and render in other software that allows video texture mapping (maybe animate camera angles in the other software as well)

I need to animate the characters in Daz Studio, apart from that I am flexible. If I can see the band video on the screen while animating camera angles, that's a big help as I can plan angles according to the band video.

Please suggest a good workflow for this!

Thanks,
Neole

Richard Haseltine

If you can arrange to make the video a hole in your scene, so that there is no geometry behind it, and render to an image sequence in png or tiff format then you would have an alpha mask you could use in compositing, making your second option easier.

I can't recall if the animated textures plug-in has been updated for DS4. It requires that the video be in a series of frames, not an actual video file. If it hasn't you could use a script to render each frame in turn, applying a frame of the video to the screen each time.