Marketing Using YouTube.

Hi Offer and Richard,

Glad you like the video!

In theory, the video took about a week to produce, but the majority of this time was spent on 'extruding' the 2D cad drawing into a 3D one in Sketchup. Another labourious procedure is correcting the perspective and removing unwanted items (e.g. Wheelie Bins) in the photographs (using photoshop) taken which are used as textures to give the model realism in SketchUp. The next thing to do was set up 'scenes' within SketchUp which basicaly means setting the camera/field of view for each still in the video. The video is an avi. movie file and these are generated using the 'animation' export function in SketchUp.

Once the avi. file is on your c: drive you can export it to YouTube and add a soundtrack on-line using sample tracks of various music geanres and of lengths to exactly match the duration of your video.

Why spend so much time and go to such lengths to make a video you may ask! Well the production of the video is secondary to me as at the same time I have produce a model which can be manipulated in thousand of different ways e.g. to produce 'hand drawn' looking perspectives, line drawings and photo-realistic looking renders to present to clients and use for marketing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/db-gardendesign/3742534520/

Meanwhile, once the Client has paid for my services and received my drawings, the SketchUp model then is only taking up space on my hard-drive so I might as well use it as a marketing tool and make the model available to anyone who has an interest in it via Google's 3D Warehouse (inc. Google Earth downloadable models).

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3e37f10b69982e96...

Regarding 'dry-stone' walling. If you have a photo of a job you have completed, you could manipulate the perspective in the image using photo editing software, and paste it on to a 'box' in Sketchup as a texture. Then trace round the out-line of the wall and 'push-pull' it to a suitable width (textures projected) to give a 3D effect. Alternatively, you could design a job in SketchUp and use the inbuilt 'materials' or import images of dry-stone walls to texture the produced faces.

That concludes this evening's opus!

Replies

Ofer El-hashahar July 25, 2009 at 12:31pm

Cool even I must say '' walking '' near the house feels narrow and claustrophobic or how ever you should write it.

How long did it take you to make this presentation?

I actually used youtube a lot to show new products .Not just it bring people into my website- from all around the world- sometimes waist of time.

But you can also paste what you did in many places that explain how to do things with a good titles you can catch some good traffic.
Richard Clegg July 25, 2009 at 1:32pm

Yes indeed, good stuff. Can you include a dry stone wall element on this kind of program?
David Beasley Garden Design July 25, 2009 at 8:33pm

Hi Offer and Richard,

Glad you like the video!

In theory, the video took about a week to produce, but the majority of this time was spent on 'extruding' the 2D cad drawing into a 3D one in Sketchup. Another labourious procedure is correcting the perspective and removing unwanted items (e.g. Wheelie Bins) in the photographs (using photoshop) taken which are used as textures to give the model realism in SketchUp. The next thing to do was set up 'scenes' within SketchUp which basicaly means setting the camera/field of view for each still in the video. The video is an avi. movie file and these are generated using the 'animation' export function in SketchUp.

Once the avi. file is on your c: drive you can export it to YouTube and add a soundtrack on-line using sample tracks of various music geanres and of lengths to exactly match the duration of your video.

Why spend so much time and go to such lengths to make a video you may ask! Well the production of the video is secondary to me as at the same time I have produce a model which can be manipulated in thousand of different ways e.g. to produce 'hand drawn' looking perspectives, line drawings and photo-realistic looking renders to present to clients and use for marketing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/db-gardendesign/3742534520/

Meanwhile, once the Client has paid for my services and received my drawings, the SketchUp model then is only taking up space on my hard-drive so I might as well use it as a marketing tool and make the model available to anyone who has an interest in it via Google's 3D Warehouse (inc. Google Earth downloadable models).

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3e37f10b69982e96...

Regarding 'dry-stone' walling. If you have a photo of a job you have completed, you could manipulate the perspective in the image using photo editing software, and paste it on to a 'box' in Sketchup as a texture. Then trace round the out-line of the wall and 'push-pull' it to a suitable width (textures projected) to give a 3D effect. Alternatively, you could design a job in SketchUp and use the inbuilt 'materials' or import images of dry-stone walls to texture the produced faces.

That concludes this evening's opus!