Render Size

[Scotty T]

Mentor me please!

Will anyone take on the task of mentoring me throughout a rendering process.

This is the deal....during college they did not touch on file sizes much at all and the one thing sticking it to me is final file size of my scenes.

 

Project: Import 3ds (tried cad file and got error) into max of a timber frame residential house. Turn off all layers except timber and floor foundation. Applied wood texture to timbers, created scene of fly around, no raytrace,no radiosty,no shadows. Rendered to a avi(smallest file i know of) using cinpeck at 350 frames for app 8 secs. Four omni lights and a sunlight. I am averaging 15 megs in final scene. I was hoping for 5 to 8.

 

Looks to me there should be a "standard" in final render settings for basic scenes or someone in the forum can create one for us "rookies" to go by.

I do obtain P.Pro but I am lost on that also.

 

Can polygons be kicking my tail? Is there a different result between importing cad files and 3ds files? How can I adjust to lower polygons?If this is not my problem then lets not focus on this just yet.

 

I also attempted to render tifs to import to P Pro and export from there as a movie but the tifs are 5secs and I cannot change them to smaller duration.This was a whole new headache.

 

Will someone debrief us on final render sizes and appropriate setting to to achieve a proper file size.

 

Selling organ to pay for some classes at 3DAS....hang on Brian Ill be there one organ short!!!

[Scotty T]

This would make a good 3DAS tutorial for the Insider.

 

Hint Hint!

[Chad Warner]

The objects in the 3d file have no bearing on the size of the outputted image (or movie) other than the amount of color information that is on the final output. I'm not the pro at movie codecs, but I would try either a WMV or a MOV file over an AVI.

[Tommy L]

render out a series of stills then import them into Premiere or aftereffects. The images (tiffs in your case) do not have a 'duration' so to speak. The software will put them in a timeline as a sequence, then compress them into a movie file at whatever rate (frames per second) you tell it to.

[Macer]

Any still image format works ok, even jpegs. Just make sure that your preferences in premiere has a still image default duration of 1 frame (not 5 seconds) and export windows media - wmv file. use the custom option to set the frame size to that of your original image size. You'll have to experiment with compression settings but I find that a two pass variable bit rate, with a target rate of 8000 Kbps a second works well for playing straight from a cd using windows media player (up to a resolution of 1200x 900). You can reduce these settings for a smaller file size if this is important.