best compression..

[shikodesign2000]

Hi,

 

If you please, I want to know good compression software to compress my vray animation files, I tried: divx, mpeg, xvid, and others....they give good size but very bad quality, I tried to raise a little some settings, but no good result..

[Nic H]

what is your purpose?

web viewing/streaming? etc.

[Devin Johnston]

The best one is going to be Quicktime but you will have larger file sizes than some of the others.

[mfured20]

I haven't done much animating, but the ones that I have done I have exported from Adobe Premiere in H.264 format. That gave me the best outcome of everything that I have tried. Even that I had to adjust the settings for each one differently. Just keep trying.

[shikodesign2000]

I tried quick time, it's the best I got till now (quality&size), but I didn't try H.264, I'll c if it is better or not...thanks a lot..

[Fernando Lino]

I would create first an MOV file without compression...It will be very heavy, after that go to Quicktime Pro and save a copy with H.264 video

if you do it directly in premier you won't get the same quality....or if you have PDplayer and you don't need special effects it will export h.264 as well with very good quality.

 

Fernando

[Sketchrender]

Just out of interest.

Is it better to render the whole animation in one go, or output the images one by one as tiffs and bring them in to PD player.

I will have to do this soon, about 3 minutes of HD Animation for presenation.

Whats the best option for this ?

HD by the way what is the best for screen show, whats dims should I go for ?

Sorry for hi jacking this but might get these guys while they are on the subject.

 

Thank you

 

phil

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Just out of interest.

Is it better to render the whole animation in one go, or output the images one by one as tiffs and bring them in to PD player.

I will have to do this soon, about 3 minutes of HD Animation for presenation.

Whats the best option for this ?

HD by the way what is the best for screen show, whats dims should I go for ?

Sorry for hi jacking this but might get these guys while they are on the subject.

 

Thank you

 

phil

 

 

Always always always render to individual frames. If there are errors during the rendering process, or changes late on you are in a much better position to fix the problem if you have a frame stack compared to a animated sequence.

 

...that said, render to 720p for resolution unless the animation is simple, and you have super fast frame times. Then go to 1080p. If memory serves, 1080 is roughly 2.25 the number of pixels as 720, so it will take 2.25 longer to render.

 

As for compression, I typically use Microsoft Expression Encoder for WMV, or Handbreak for Mov or H264. Both give excellent results. The WMV is a little more universal for the Windows environment, Handbreak will probably give better quality.

Edited January 2, 2011 by Crazy Homeless Guy