Dave Oliver Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 i am using vray, but im really posting in the vray forum because im completely unsure of where to start looking for info on this question: im spending a long time rendering an animation using vray to an uncompressed .avi to maximize quality and so i have control over any degradation of the quality. i want to create a version that will play on the lower end pc's clients will likely have. anyone have suggestions as to video format/compression? or where to look for info like this? thanks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thablanch Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 You should not render to .avi. Animations should be rendered out as a .tif or tga sequence, and then assembled (AE/Combustion/Premiere/whatever..) Reason= if something freeze, you can re-render 1 or 2 missing frame, and the rest of the machines are still going. You are not loosing a sequence or precious rendering time. For coordination, and really low quality stuff, you can also do .swf, as most people will be able to open a flash page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Alain is right, if we are interpreting what you are saying correctly.. Always render to separate image files as frames, then compile etc as above. Then you can render out to an uncompressed AVI and encode using windows media encoder. This way you can then make sure that you have a really good chance of people being able to view the file on different machines. This is the method I used recently and it worked really well. You can then export to other formats as well from within media encoder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Oliver Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 yes, you are reading it correctly. the reason i did .avi is because i have had a hard time in the past compiling the individual images in premiere, and not knowing what format/encoding to use. but i could drop the avi into premiere and have it output with the windows media encoder? would you recommend dropping below the 500x1000 resolution i am rendering at? i know i sound really general here, kind of just asking 'how make video run good' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowback Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I really dont know premire but there has to be a way of... Iafter affects when you import, it compiles your rendered images into a sequence. (really easy....idiot proof) In final cut, you can set your still image prefrences to 1 frame so....when you import or place on timeline.....you have 1 frame. The rest is as what was already said....export avi and so on.... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landrvr1 Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 yes, you are reading it correctly. the reason i did .avi is because i have had a hard time in the past compiling the individual images in premiere, and not knowing what format/encoding to use. but i could drop the avi into premiere and have it output with the windows media encoder? would you recommend dropping below the 500x1000 resolution i am rendering at? i know i sound really general here, kind of just asking 'how make video run good' Max is horrid at outputing video; for too many reasons to get into. Thablanch has it correct; output as .tif files. There's no messing around there; it's a great format. You said you've had a hard time in the past with inserting into Premiere. Can you elaborate? Perhaps we can help with that. Once you get those .tif images into Premiere you should then export as an uncompressed .avi file. From there you can dump that .avi into the free Windows Media Encoder program. I would not recommend creating either Windows Media Files or Quicktime out of Premiere itself. The reason is simple (and confirmed by any Adobe Premiere tech rep): Adobe never gets the latest and greatest codecs from either Microsoft or Apple. For instance, even though Premiere offers the Quicktime H.264 codec, it is in fact an abbreviated version from what you get when you purchase Quicktime Pro. As far as resolution, what's your intended delivery? PC? DVD on a widescreen tv? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowback Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 As far as resolution, what's your intended delivery? PC? DVD on a widescreen tv? Really good point. That the really be one of the first things considered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Its THE first thing to be considered. Otherwise you could be rendering wasted pixels, not enough pixels.. etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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