The Animation codec is not designed for low data rate. Are your clips actually animations, i.e. 3-D modeled and rendered or cell-type using clean illustrations for keyframes with computer-generated 'tweening? If not, you are using the WRONG codec. If you're using it on captured video, you're definitely mismatched. Animation cannot even begin to deal with the noise present in captured video. It's less when coming from DV camera, but it's still there.
Any compressed video is a compromise. There are many variables to juggle, but it's primarily between date rate/file size and image quality. Perhaps the future will bring us the perfect codec that gives both without a compromise, but that technology doesn't exist now. Sorenson is currently the best choice for low data rates and acceptable image quality...better than any previous codec. But you should consider buying the commercial version for its almost-magical compression abilities. While the free version that comes with the QuickTime installer will do compression, it is a poor cousin to the fully-implemented version, which costs somewhere north of $300 but is definitely worth it...specially when used with the "correct" settings. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tanya Renne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:06 PM > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> OT:Flash and Mpeg in Director > > > we were keeping all our options open as far as the playback, but this CD is > tending to be media heavy, and we are limited to about 180MB on a 3" CD - > mpegs seemed to be the only high quality, low file size solution for our > video sequences. Sorenson compression didn't compare in quality, and I > prefer the animation codec in Quicktime, but file size way too high. What > window sizes (for vid) and compression codecs do you find yourself using the > most? I ask about window size, because we are using odd size windows > (longer boxes ala cinematic look, and more squarish boxes), and we tend to > get strange "artifacts" - additional vertical grey lines appearing on the > right side of our video (drives me crazy!) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
