Easy and fast way to import/convert video files to FB4

[Vaidotas]

Hello,

I am new in this. We have purchased 4FB in order sometimes to show our logo, on our office wall, or sometimes to show some short video.
Our business field of focus has nothing to do with lasers, 3D etc..

So we do not want to spend a lot of time for content creation, drawing/animations etc..

Is there a fast/easy way to convert *.mp4 *.avi or other popular video formats, to format that 4FB can play?

It seems that TraceIT was the way to go, but I guess this line is dead, as the software does not start and is not normally available for download.

 

[Igor Strakhov]

Hi, Vaidotas!
Making high-quality laser animation from video is a very painstaking, long and expensive job.
With Tracert, you can get an adequate result if, for example, you want to get a contour of a dancing person.
To do this, you need make a video of a dancer in a black suit on a green background.

 

[Vaidotas]

Hello, Igor,

Thank you for information. Is there an alternative software to do this job. Maybe there are more sophisticated tools, to convert videos to contours, and the to FB4?
I just came up with Beyond tool Real Time Video tracer, is there something for video files?
https://wiki.pangolin.com/doku.php?id=beyond:real_time_video_tracer
Could you please share the link to Tracert download - can not find it anywhere, - will give it a try.

 

[Igor Strakhov]

Hi, Vaidotas!
I am not aware of software tools that could do this task.
In any case, a lot depends on the content of the original video.
To work with TraceIt, you will need FB3.
You can download it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/5o3qcmd8vosnn4u/TraceIT_4_24_727_780.zip
Beyond Real Time Video tracer is practically the same tool as TraceIt

 

[Vaidotas]

Thank, You Igor,
We only have FB4, so this is not much of a help. The dropbox zip only contains the help file *.chm, but no software.
I could not start the Real Time Video tracer either in Beyond for the webcam, I guess the issue is, that I do not have the Beyond license,
we want to find the right solution, and only then make the purchase.
But I guess you are right, preparation of the video will last longer then just drawing the required animation.

 

[Igor Strakhov]

Beyond Real Time Video tracer is only available in the Ultimate version of Beyond.
I'm not sure if this feature is in the demo version, but I think it's worth trying to download and install the demo version of Beyond.
To do this, you need create account on the website pangolin.com, go to the Beyond page https://pangolin.com/pages/beyond and download demo installer from there.