Podium Walker (Standard) Version 

Podium Walker is an alternative to ProWalker GPU for Mac users, and Windows users who do not have GPU hardware capable of running ProWalker efficiently.

Podium Walker is a real-time animation plug-in for SketchUp that allows users to create high quality animated visualizations and walkthroughs from their SketchUp models, quickly and easily. Podium Walker uses a keyframe based animation workflow to create an animated motion path out of your SketchUp camera views, and then a fast raytracing engine to render and export video files. Read more below

• Podium Walker uses CPU based ray tracing and ambient occlusion to create photo-real renderings and animations.
• Renders all of Podium's material properties and artificial lights, including light emitting materials and blurred reflection.
• Support for thousands of components and materials from Podium Browser.
• Import SketchUp scenes or SU Animate camera paths to create keyframe animations automatically.
• It creates keyframe animations for video production and also can record your camera navigation.
• Export to common video formats such as .mp4, .mov, .m2t and .avi.
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​There are two "Walker" SketchUp Extensions available

1. ProWalker GPU - ProWalker is powered by NVIDIA Iray, with a strong emphasis on GPU based rendering. Capable of significantly higher quality than older versions of Podium Walker, and useable for both still visualization and camera animation. Only recommended if you have up-to-date NVIDIA graphics hardware. Available for Windows only.
2. Podium Walker Standard (This option)- This is the legacy version of Podium Walker, available for both Windows and Mac. In some cases this is a more efficient solution for rendering animation. Rendering calculations are completed by CPU instead of graphics card.

​Podium Walker uses a CPU based raytracing engine to render your animations and export video. There are no minimum hardware requirements, but we recommend as many CPU cores and as fast a clock speed as possible.