Hi. I have been using twinmotion on and off and it is fantastic but I am having the same issues. For whatever reason it appears that all the key frame changes does not work at all as I intend. For example, I saw this video below and I wanted to make a slow depth of field change and I thought I applied DoF on one single key frame. However, it turns out it is now applied to all other frames. I tried to add another key frame where I turn it off and it turns off for a half second and then continue again with the depth of field (blurry). Btw, another issue is that there does not appear to be a far DoV where the closest becomes blurry but that is secondary for now. This instant turn off is also true for disabling certain items. Say I want to disable a specific element on a view then I thought that if I turn off say a table on first keyframe and then remove it on the second then it will be removed all throughought key frame 1 and 2 but no, it flicks off for a second and turns on and then flicks of again for the second frame. I am sure there is something I do not properly understand though.
Hello ,
Thank you for posting in the community and reporting this issue with Fov/Dov. When changing the Fov/Dov you should be able to go into each clip and hover over the keyframe with your mouse and select the more menu so you can edit them independently. If you select the settings menu of the clip that changes the all the keyframes and sets up the ambience.
After setting up different settings for different keyframes when going to the settings of the clip you will see Multi as a set settings to the ones that would be different for certain keyframes.
You can also setup a start and end ambience for each Clip. By selecting that option in the Part/clip Menu. Once selected you will see a Start and End menu in the Part edited so you can modify a starting ambience and end ambience.
Regarding how to manage elements visible in a keyframe and not in another, you can either establish a scene state to apply to specific keyframes. This can be applied in the camera settings > scene states of a clip or keyframes.
https://youtu.be/LbzZH3N0X6w
Alternatively you can manually hide the elements in question in the scene graph then update the keyframe in question by selecting the update/refresh icon at the top of the selected keyframe/part. As seen in the image below, if you see any Youtube icon in the temporary tips menu when you hover and icon you can press the shortcut to get to a quick video to show how to use the tool.
https://youtu.be/qxL42QDOs5U
If you have any suggestions or ideas to help improve the software or any features please submit your ideas to our road-map here:
https://portal.productboard.com/7pu88c9kpmqtzt8hwg6arujh/tabs/4-under-consideration
For reference here is the official documentation that could be helpful for you:
https://www.twinmotion.com/docs/2022.1/en-US/UsingTwinmotion/working-with-media/creating-and-exporting-media-assets/videos-in-twinmotion/
Hope this helps and let us know if you are still having troubles with the transition effect you were trying to achieve.
Kind regards,
Vincent B.
Thanks for a detailed answer. The phasing certainly can be helpful but I believe the comments regarding the keyframe does not properly explain the issue nor solve the problem. Lets say I have 2 key frames that are spread over 10 seconds with first key frame at second 0 and second 10 then the assumed effect of adding 8 am time of day on key frame 1 and then set 23 pm on key frame 2 is that it would gradually go from 8 till 11 pm in an even manner. However, that is not the case. What it does is that it keeps on 8 am for second 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and then immediately switches to 11 pm on second 10. In other softwares should you want to influence how the transition would go then you would be able to go into one of these frames and create a new keyframe. Say I would go to second 5 then should it be evenly distributed then the time value at that point should around 5 pm and should I change this to say 9 pm then what the affect would be is that it would fade much quicker for the first half (8 am till 9 pm, 11 hours) for then have a much slower transition on the second half from 9 pm till 11 pm, 2 hours. However, it appears that twinmotion has a completely mechanism so rather than doing the above then if I go in on second 5 and change then what it will do is that it will go from 8 am, do nothing until second 5 where it will immediately switch to 9 pm and then it will switch back to 8 am and then it will, at second 10, go from 8 am to 11 pm instantly rather than a smooth transition. This means that rather than creating slow nice transitions what I usually end up with is a lot of very quick and dramatic changes. The only time I am able to make a slow nice transition is if I get it right the first time while creating it in the first place.
Adding to this, this reflects other items as well such as position. Say I create a key frame and then go forwards and then backwards, click new key frame then what the camera does is that it first goes forward, then goes backward and then forward again. I realise now that I should probably have used the recapture but it does not really correct all problem.
Another thing that I want to ask is how I can split different parts in more videos, is that possible? I made a video split in 3 parts and I want to keep them all but I would like to move part 1, 2 and 3 into separate video clips but I cannot figure out how to do it. Any tips?
Thanks for the quick support btw, appreciate the intention.