animation output help

[v-tool]

hello guys, probably its not the best place to ask this kind of question but i need help,

i rendered animation on 3d max and vray, saved frames to .tga and im trying to composite them in adobe premiere pro cs4 and im really newbie for that , my problem is i dnt know what output should i render from adobe premiere, ive tried different kinds of formats but i think there is lot of quality loss comparing to orginal frames from 3dmax. anyone have any idea what is the best output from adobe premiere without losing quality?

thnx guys i will appriciate ur help

[chadw]

Your loss of quality is coming from whatever compression you are using. Depending on your needs for final output size and quality it is a little bit of a juggling act. You could render out a quicktime with no compression and depending on the length of your animation and resolution you may end up with a very large file. I frequently render a quicktime with animation compression, however sorenson 3 is also good. I would avoid H264 because the gamma curve for the compression is off... and if you must use it then add an adjustment layer on top prior to rendering to correct for it. If you can be more specific regarding your use/ needs of the animation I could help you a bit more... ie is there a specific size you are trying to keep it under, are you using it for web streaming, ect.... Hope this helps.

 

Chad

[v-tool]

@chadw

 

thnx for your reply man,

i erndered .tga sequences at 800x600 resolution and im trying to get the best quality i can (almost same as .tga frames), animation im going to use for presentation (not web)

[chadw]

Yeah... I would make a quicktime (.mov) and try uncompressed first. If the file is over 600MB then you might want to add a little compression at a time until you get the animation more managable. At that resolution I don't think you will need to though, unless the animation is very long. You may want to update your quicktime install as many of the codecs I am talking about are brought over from that app. If you need to compress I would try animation first at like 90 percent... you should not notice much of a quality compromise with that. Hope that helps