How can I match my animation to a video?

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hi everyone.

I’m trying to remake an old 90’s 3D animation in Blender. The old video is 24fps and I want my animation to be 60fps.

Is there a way to sync a video to my time line, so I can match my animations to the original video?. I need to time my animation just like in the video to get a more or less 1:1 recreation.

I tied importing just the audio, to use it as a guide, but every time I rewind, the audio moves. If there’s an explosion in frame 100, when I rewind the explosion now happens at frame 200, if I rewind the explosion now moves to frame 300.

I need a reliable way to use the video as a reference for my animation, otherwise I would need to work totally blind and that would be a lot of work.

I hope you guys can help me. Thanks.

2

You can use a reference image. Add->empty->image then link to a movie file and you’re set. Then you can move the reference around and animate on top of it.

3

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn’t work. The animation plays way too fast.

It definitely has to do with the video framerate and the framerate inside Blender :frowning:

4

Either retime the video itself first or match the framerate inside Blender (24fps) first then change to 60 for rendering.

5

I thought about that but I suspect doubling my framerate in rendering will make my animation play super fast.

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You mean, once exported ? blender will encode the video with the scene framerate so it will play at normal speed