Video Compression

[David Bearss]

I am fiddling with publishing to Video Movie files and am looking for advice on the advantages, differences on the abundance of options for video compression settings. I counted 10 different compressors but have not been able to find any discussion on any of them. Anybody have any advise / experience willing to shaer? Has this been discuss previously and I am just missing it? Just looking for some quick and clean animations to publish overnight and then drop on a CD or post to web. I want to use the internal rendering engines and will not export to any other andimation / rendering software.

[Anonymous]

Last night I set up a file to render, 261 frames - 368 x 213 - 6 min. on a Mac dual 2GHz.

Individual tiff files, import into QT pro as image sequence. Export as Sorenson3 medium setting - Final file size 1.3MB.

I smoothed the path between three cameras, yet there is a hiccup in the output. It is little problems like that which deter me from using ArchiCAD for even typical work. Also the tiff files are not recognized by DivX. Although the recognition problem may be coming from the format size of the images, I can test this again later.

Please, no C&C about content - this is a test -Beep - Only a test - If this were an actual rendering you would see plants, trees, detail, lack of black in shadow.

http://www.Burginger.com/MOVIE/MED_SOR3.mov

[Anonymous]

Changing the aspect ratio to fit the standards in Divx resulted in a 320 x 176 - 1.16MB file. Hiccup disappeared.

http://www.Burginger.com/MOVIE/DivX.avi