Keyframing in Mandelbulber Tutorial

A walk-through in what are frames and keyframes, and keyframing animation in Mandelbulber version 2.12, with OpenCL rendering on GPU video card devices. I'll take you from start to finish on a quick Mandelbulber fractal animation.
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[@mauricioaudiovisual]

i dont speak english but la traducción al español de este video is very good tan buena! que entendí todo perfectamente! You can't imagine everything you've taught me! there were a lot of things I didn't understand! un millón de gracias!

[@gypsycookie]

Thank you for this awesome information! It's helped me a whole lot!

[@frankschannel2642]

Hi, Stephen! Frank from Mandelbulbar FB. Awesome video. Looking forward to more tutorials. Gonna scope out the rest of your channel now.

[@hr.pikkerup8793]

Hi Steven.. Just watched you tutorial and I want to say a BIG thanks for your video. You really explain it in a perfect manner; Not to fast, not to slow and just what you need to get started. Hope to see more of these in the future ! Kind regards

[@russedmonds227]

Fantastic tutorial! just what I needed thanks!

[@StephenSink]

Good to hear and thanks! You can always join us over at the Facebook Mandelbulber site.

[@russedmonds227]

@@StephenSink Yes I've joined it!

[@StephenSink]

@@russedmonds227 Excellent, and welcome!

[@dondiegoatelier]

THANKS!! YOU R THE BEST!! UPLOAD MORE PLEASE!!!

[@artao5]

Little tip: 24fps is pretty standard for movies in theaters. The 30fps is TV. If you render at 24fps, you save yourself 360 frames per minute. So if you've got, say, 30 seconds per frame, rendering 1 minute of animation, you'd save yourself 180 minutes of render time! And that's without noticeable loss of quality or smoothness in the animation. :O And 30 seconds is a pretty fast render time. If you're doing HD, then your render times per frame will almost certainly be longer, in which case you save even MORE time by rendering at 24fps rather than 30.

[@StephenSink]

Hey, thanks for that! I mostly agree with your points, but.... I do think the 30 FPS is noticeably smoother than 24 fps, this is KZbin and neither TV nor movies, and most monitors have a refresh rate of some even multiple of 30 (60, 120, 240), and also, the most common tempo for pop music is 120 BPM, which is exactly a measure every two seconds, and also evenly divides into 30. So, different medium than TV/movies, monitors evenly divide into 30, and audio syncing is easy and perfect at 30 FPS and 120 BPM. Also, I'm using OpenCl and GPU rendering, and I can render a full 4K fractal video in a day or two to a week at most, depending on the settings. The time saved versus the quality and ease of syncing and smoothness of video for KZbin and computer monitors all make 30 FPS a much better choice than 24 FPS. But I do appreciate your insights and viewpoints, and thanks very much for commenting!

[@xlace]

Great tutorial!

[@sunterry]

Very good tutorial 👍🏻 just what I needed

[@ccjmusic]

This was very useful as I have been trying to figure out how to morph the animations.

[@cybercryptoknight1706]

Excellent tutorial, needed help with animation and this covered all the bases, thank you!

[@StephenSink]

My pleasure! Happy to share some knowledge and watch you all rock it out!

[@mouzerofficial]

Thanks so much man

[@ChrisSeilerLFD]

Very helpful. Thank you so much.

[@peterwassmuth4014]

AWESOME!! Thank You for a great tutorial, and a excellent presentation. Looking forward for more tutorials..and maybe Mandelbulb 3D. SUBSCRIBED!! ;)

[@cue108]

Just thank you!!!

[@letscompose8560]

Thank you so much for this! Rad channel and subbed!

[@metafis2490]

I have a low end PC, it doesnt run mandelbulber very fast..mandelbulb 3D is much faster.(on my PC). Does this happen with high end PC's?, or is Mandelbulber optimised for high end PC?. I prefer Mandelbulber, but it's so slow for me, so I tend to use mandelbulb 3D. edit Ahh..the answer is in this video. I didnt know that it defaulted to using CPU for rendering. I changed it to point to my graphics card(as you showed) and it was a HUGE increase. eg ..basic bulb on my CPU 6 seconds. same image but via my Graphics card.. 0.4 seconds!. Thanks.

[@StephenSink]

Sweet! Yeah, the ability to use graphic cards sets Mandelbulber far apart of the rest (well, MB3D at least), which is otherwise a fine, fine program--no disrespect! But OpenCl and graphic cards make a 6 second job into a .4 second job. That's a level up!

[@GianlucaBrizi]

Thanks. I learn with your videos. And I am searching for a tutorial to play fractal attributes at the music BPM. Have you done that? Thanks more!

[@StephenSink]

I've done 4 or 5 fractal audio sync videos, but no tutorials yet. Mandelbulber can definitely take any audio input and use either the frequency or amplitude to modulate and modify almost any parameter. It's very powerful, although it's difficult to make a good effect that doesn't seem like a pulsating strobe light. Here's a recent attempt by me to make it work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZu8qnymjtRnb80. Cheers!

[@antstock13]

I followed the tutorial, but I can't render my file, it crashes evey time, the best I got was 38 frames then it locks, I need a forced shutdown to get the PC started again, driving me nutz coz I'm missing out on some serious art work, any ideas? Thanx, good tute dude.

[@lakshitmalhotra7399]

thankyou so much

[@StephenSink]

You're very welcome! Glad it was useful to you. Happy fractals!

[@themikemagno]

Hey Steve thanks for the tips! Question? After the animation is rendered, how are we able to save it as a video file? Is there a separate program to compress with a video codec?

[@StephenSink]

You need to use a program like the free Virtual Dub or iMovie or Premiere Pro to turn all of the rendered frames into a movie. Mandelbulber only outputs frames (and meshes too) but doesn’t do movies other than to view your frames when you hit the Show animation button. And thanks! Happy Fractals!

[@themikemagno]

@@StephenSink thanks for the tip! VirtualDub worked out perfectly. Is there any reason for when I render an animation fine at 800x600 with 100 frames per keyframe and 60fps and then render the same thing except at 4K, the animation comes out slow and choppy?

[@GoaEnjoyer]

Hey there, I'm curious as to how you record the animations. Do you just use a screen recorder?

[@StephenSink]

You save frames to a folder that you specify in the animation pane. The default is 30 frames a second. Then you use another software like Adobe Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro or the free Virtual Dub to assemble the frames into video.

[@GoaEnjoyer]

@@StephenSink I understand, thanks a lot for the help! (and the quick reply)

[@hanswurst5590]

can't change the precision, is that bad?

[@StephenSink]

I'm not sure what that means; I'm sorry. The "precision"?

[@colinfraser1309]

Wonderful explanation. Could you please indicate how to use keyframes to 'morph' between different fractals?

[@StephenSink]

You can have a formula in each of two slots and then use the Weight value at the top of the fractal parameters to change the weight from one to the other. So, when they're in hybrid, for example, a Menger would dominate if you weighed more in that slot or a Mandelbulb if the weight was more on that slot. Having said that, Mandelbulber doesn't easily morph from one formula to a completely different one.

[@colinfraser1309]

Thank you for the response. I tried that but whenever I add a key frame, the parameters of all previous frames revert to the new one.

[@StephenSink]

@@colinfraser1309 That's because there are parameters that you didn't right click on and "add to keyframe animation." If there are parameters that the animation is not tracking, then changing them outside of the animation pane will globally change them for the whole video. You have to add each parameter to the animation that you want to not change, or it will change globally for everything.

[@StephenSink]

@@colinfraser1309 For example, if the glow value is not added to the animation, then changing the glow value at any point will make that new value the default and it will apply globally through the animation. Add the glow parameter to the animation, and it will change with every keyframe--or not change, as you want it to.

[@colinfraser1309]

Firstly, let me thank you for taking the time and effort to reply to me. I really appreciate it. I will try what you suggest later on and let you know how it worked out.

[@phynigon]

i have downloaded latest version but i cannot find the option to use my geforce.

[@StephenSink]

Right at 5:00 or so I walk you through going into the settings and preferences and selecting your video card. Cheers!

[@phynigon]

i dont have nothing but program settings and there is general and image tab but not this third tab

[@phynigon]

oops sorry. i installed the latest version but im starting a older version from shortcut. now seems to be working as intended. thank you.

[@phynigon]

but now i have another problem. all the colors are messed up. imgur.com/a/gRfXIZS