best animation settings

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Hi, I wanted to make an interior animation (my first one), but Im not too happy with the results...the quality seems really bad. It's jittery and not fluid, and I was wondering what settings and options I should use to obtain high quality animations. Thanks you.

[edub]

there is a bug, where the button called "best animation setting" doesn't show up... maybe you're experiencing this problem?

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Thanks for the "help"..."Senior Member". Only serious replies please...its hard to trouble shoot this kind of thing when animations take days to finish...I was just hoping for a nudge in the right direction. Immature replies don't help me much. If you don’t have any informative information to divulge, don't bother responding. Thanks.

[edub]

sorry, for the joke. it was just too easy, as you've volunteered no information as to what software you're using and what your settings are.

 

You might be better off posting in a thread dedicated to your specific software.

 

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No hard feelings, umm as for your question, I'm using 3dsmax and vray. I guess im wondering what settings give the best results as far as codecs? I dont know. I don't have much experience with the settings you use for animating.

[edub]

oh, so you're not having issues with max or Vray, but with the compression codecs?

 

hmm, what are you currently using to compress the video?

 

Maybe you can explain what you have tried so far, and what's not working for you...

 

I'm not much help, but neither will anyone else be if they don't have a better understanding of what you actually are having a problem with.

[santiago]

If you have a video editing program, like premiere, then you're better off rendering as sequences of still images.

Render to TGA (targa), or to TIFF formats, because with either one you can render images with no compression codec applied, which means zero loss of image quality.

Then in the video editing program you can take that sequence of targas or tiffs, and render out a video with the codec of your choice. You don't have to re-render the 3D scene any longer, you're just putting the sequence of targas or tiffs inton one video file using a codec. You can also render to a video with no compression, but that takes a lot of hard drive space.

 

If your video is meant for to be played on a tv, then you should render from 3dsmax by fields, instead of by frames, and in that case you definitely should use a sequence of targas or tiffs, and it should be to the proper resolution and pixel ratio, if it's for tv, then the 720 x 480 with 0.9 pixel ratio is the proper resolution, rendered by fields of course. The video editing software will take that seuquence of wide images and output to a 640 x 480 resolution in a square pixel ratio. If you've ever used a dv handycam, then you should know what to do from there. Your output from the video editing software should an avi video in DV format. Then from the video editing software you can record that video directly onto a DV tape, your handycam must be connected to the computer, via firewire. Once you have the DV tape with your animation on it, that becomes your master tape, you can use it to make copies on VHS tapes, or to play directly from your handycam.

Another option is to take the DV avi video and publish it on a DVD, you will need a DVD authoring software for that, or perhaps your video editing software can do that as well.

 

If your animation is just to be played on computers, then you should never render to fields, because computer monitors do not display video in interlaced mode, the always project everything as full frames. In that case from your video editing software you can choose any of your codecs, I usually use either Quicktime format with the Sorenson codec, or I use AVi format using div-x.

[renderbeads]

Thanks for the explanation santiago. I' m glad for your helpfulness.