6 Replies Latest reply on Jan 28, 2015 9:08 AM by James Lupinek

Cut Plot Animation Flicker

James Lupinek Jan 23, 2015 10:19 AM

Good Afternoon,

Trying to save an animation of a solid temperature cut plot. I have 40 data points over 12 seconds of video. When I play the video back on windows media player, it is flickering. Almost as if in between each rendered frame, there is an all black frame.

Anyone else ever run into this? I have a feeling it might be an issue with my GPU or driver. But I was able to save a very similar animation of a fluid temp cut plot that plays back fine.

Thanks

-James-

Re: Cut Plot Animation Flicker

James Lupinek Jan 23, 2015 11:06 AM (in response to James Lupinek)

In the meantime I believe I will just work around the issue. Originally I was saving everything to a single avi file. Now I am saving batch bitmaps and then constructing the avi myself from the images. More labor intensive, but a better finished product.
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  Amit Katz Jan 23, 2015 2:19 PM (in response to James Lupinek)
  
  Just asking the obvious here, but did you try playing it with a different media player or another PC?
  
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    James Lupinek Jan 26, 2015 11:15 AM (in response to Amit Katz)
    
    I have tried multiple computers, but I do not have any players besides windows media.
    
    Having another issue when exporting trajectory animations. Pipes in particular are saving avi files that are completely black. No work around with this one either. When saving batch BMP files i get the same thing, they are all black.
    
    Anyone else exp this?
    
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James Lupinek Jan 26, 2015 11:48 AM (in response to James Lupinek)

The more I play around with it, it seems to be a video driver issue. I get different results when I change drivers, some better and some worse. The latest driver from Nvidia seems to be working the best.

Thank you to anyone who read my post. Next time I will troubleshoot a bit more before posting for help.
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  Jared Conway Jan 27, 2015 1:34 AM (in response to James Lupinek)
  
  what gfx driver and card?
  
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    James Lupinek Jan 28, 2015 9:08 AM (in response to Jared Conway)
    
    PNY Quadro K2000D
    
    It was one of the Solidworks approved drivers from october-november. I think it was driver 331.82. We have performed a service pack update since then. So it was my fault for not keeping the GPU up to speed.
    
    I'm currently on Solidworks Premium 2014 x64 SP 3.0 paired with nvidia driver 341.21 and it seems to be working fine.
    
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