I'm sorry, I just re-read you message. You're using MPEG, not Animation for compression. Excuse my ramblings on irrelevant matters. I agree with your choice of MPEG, but you still may want to use QuickTime for playback in your projector.
Ron Woodland Ron Woodland wrote: > 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!] > > -- ------------------------------------------------- Ronald Woodland -- St. George, Utah 84770 ------------------------------------------------- "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -- Helen Keller [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!]
