RevitGary Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 (edited) I have been experimenting with compiling animations and posting to you tube. I created the animations in max and exported the frames as pngs. I am compiling them with adobe premier elements. It seems that exporting as a quicktime movie is best. Others have recommended mpeg4. I have an older version of premier and mpeg4 isnt an option. The problem is when I make the animations as a .mov the quality gets a bit "milky" it is losing its contrast. Any ideas why or what a better format might be? or how to up the contrast? Below are my quicktime codec options any suggestions on which to use? apple animation apple bmp apple cinepak apple component video yuv422 apple dv pal apple dv/dvcpro-ntsc apple dvcpro - pal apple graphics apple h.261 apple motion jpeg a apple motion jpeg b apple none apple photo jpeg apple planar rgb apple png apple tga apple tiff apple video h.263 h.264 jpeg 2000 encoder sorensen video 3 compressor sorenson video tm compressor Edited February 25, 2011 by RevitGary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Ahh the infamous Quicktime Gamma issue. Check this out: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/06/fix-quicktime-gamma-shift/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmanus Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 From your list, you should give h.264 a shot. It's actually mpeg4, and is the codec used by Blu-ray and YouTube. This is also good because you will have less re-encodes of your movies if they are going on YouTube... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevitGary Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 The h.264 code is what youtube recoomends. I had no idea that it was the mepg4. Now I am trying to figure out how to minimize my render time. Youtube recommends HD videos for best quality. The HD size makes for slow render times. Does adjusting spatial contrast speed up render times? I havent gotten my head around spatial contrast yet or what it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevitGary Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 ok I found a youtube on spatial contrast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnT5QXfl5Es&feature=related Now I get it. I set my spatial contrast to .9 it reduce my per frame render time to about 1 minute instead of 1 1/2 minutes per frame. I have my filter type to Traingle. What does everyone else use? Which is fastest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmanus Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I use Mitchell, but if you are looking to speed up your renders, box is the fastest... Also, if you want to do HD, you could always do 720P as opposed to 1080P to save some rendering time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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