Originally posted by Carnifex:

Originally posted by Oleander:

I've never had any trouble exporting as MP4

^this. I had the same problem as the OP, but only with avi, MP4 should work. however, youtube doesn't seem to accept MP4, at least for me ;__;

MP4 is actually the native formate YT supports, and don't worry about the audio being just slightly longer, in VD goto video/framerate and change the fps to the one you exported from SFM which is presumeably 24.

Just drag it to the beginning and it should work, if it doesn't then find out if you can import sound into Virtualdub.

You can export a png sequence with a seperate WAV audio file, use virtualdub to make the images into a video then bring that and the audio into I guess Windows Live Movie Maker if you don't have a video editor.

I export as a pfm image sequence for 32 bit workflow, but png should work fine for you. It's never best to have SFM compress a movie itself, and is always best to export as either a lossless avi or png sequence.

Thats what happens most of the time when you export a video file, you have to export as a png image sequence and use virtualdub to make it into a video.

Forget the particles, just to get the models you would have to decompile them and convert them to a Source friendly format. There are plenty of resources to do it, but particles aren't possible.

Originally posted by OneFourth:

Originally posted by Etmer the Sentry c::

I don't have much to say tbh, though I would say that Mocap isn't animation. To me, animation is an art, and it isn't meant to be easy either. One of the reasons why I love watching animations, is because of the effort put into them. People who put effort into their work, is worth watching imo.

However, Mocap feels like a process, rather than an art itself. Mocap videos do have a cheap look to them, and it does take out the originality imo. I think that Mocap is meant to be used rather as a reference, than the final product. These are just my two cents though, and I am a bit new to animation myself.

Mocap, if done properly, can look better than animation sometimes. By properly, I mean laying animation over it. Just look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90MYtGI-20
Mocap and hand editing.

Yeah, Max makes it look awesome!

The thing about mocap is that unless you have multiple high end infared cameras the movement is not going to be precise at all (kinect). Mocap has it's advantages but if you want high precision, yet harder to make animation that people won't immediately say is mocap, then keyframing is better. It's quite obvious when mocap is being done, and even more obvious that keyframing is being done if it does not look that great.

Oh wow, I don't think anyone knows about these! I don't really know what to tell you, I was using ipisoft and motionbuilder too, so I have to check this out!

Idk, the only thing i can think of would be to modify it's settings, move the playhead out of the project to refresh it, but if those things don't work then I suggest you go to the OSFM group chat and see if they can help, as much as I would like a trading card :P.