Loading files as video assets

You can load files as video assets, textures assets, video planes, or video and audio assets via the File menu, the Navigator window's Scene browser, or the Asset browser.

You can drag a video asset in the Viewer window via the Asset browser or the Videos' branch in the Navigator window's Scene browser to:

• add it to the scene,
• set it as a video plane,
• set it as the current camera foreground, or
• set it as the current camera background.

MotionBuilder supports the following file formats as video assets:

• .avi
• .bmp
• .dds
• .iff
• .jpeg
• .jpg
• .memory
• .mov
• .mp2
• .mp4
• .mpeg
• .mpg
• .mpg2
• .mpg4
• .pic
• .png
• .rgb
• .rgba
• .sgi
• .switcher
• .tga
• .tif
• .tiff
• .yuv

To load a video asset via the Scene browser in the Navigator window:

1. Right-click the Video branch and select Insert Video from the contextual menu.

   The Import Video dialog appears.

2. Navigate in the Import Video dialog, select a file and click Open.

   The video asset is loaded in the scene. The Navigator window displays the video asset in the Scene browser and the video asset’s settings under the Video Settings tab.

Topics in this section

• Adding a video asset to the scene

  You can load a video file in a MotionBuilder scene via the File menu, via the Navigator window's Scene browser, or via the Asset browser. The end result differs depending on the procedure you choose and on the file type you choose to load.